[Rails] malformed format string

Eric Hodel drbrain at segment7.net
Thu Dec 30 08:23:33 GMT 2004


On 29 Dec 2004, at 23:25, Keith Donaldson wrote:

> I think I've got the SQL right ... it returns the expected results
> when query the db, but when I try to recreate this same query using
> rails I get the following error.  I'm new to all of this, but do you
> have any idea what I might be doing wrong?
>
> ArgumentError in Dj#search_recording
>
> malformed format string - %'

Escape your % with %%, Rails uses sprintf (%) on the inside.

> /app/controllers/dj_controller.rb:11:in `search_recording'
> script/server:49
>
> Show framework trace
>
> lib/active_record/base.rb:671:in `%'
                                    ^^^
                                Your clue

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