gregbell/active_admin — Issue #827: Custom controller actions rendering error 
Author: damrbaby
Created: 2011-12-08 06:01:29+00:00
State: open

Rendering is causing the following error on my member controller action on Rails 3.1.3 with the latest active_admin code form github:

```
undefined method `get' for nil:NilClass
```
The error is coming from this call in layout.rb:

```
1: render view_factory.layout
```

and traces back to the content_for method in ActionView::Helpers::CaptureHelper:

```ruby
def content_for(name, content = nil, &block)
if content || block_given?
content = capture(&block) if block_given?
@view_flow.append(name, content) if content
nil
else
@view_flow.get(name) # THIS IS WHAT IS TRIGGERING THE NIL ERROR
end
end
```
This issue is that @view_flow is nil, so when content_for(:layout) is being called, @view_flow.get(:layout) fails with a nil error.

I cannot figure out why @view_flow is nil or how to remedy this issue. I have tried ERB, ARB, and HAML templates for my member action but to no avail. For the sake of completeness below are the first few lines of the backtrace:

```
activesupport (3.1.3) lib/active_support/whiny_nil.rb:48:in `method_missing'
actionpack (3.1.3) lib/action_view/helpers/capture_helper.rb:142:in `content_for'
/active_admin/lib/active_admin/views/pages/layout.rb:17:in `main_content'
/active_admin/lib/active_admin/views/pages/base.rb:116:in `block (2 levels) in build_main_content_wrapper'
/active_admin/lib/active_admin/arbre/builder.rb:68:in `block in build_tag'
```