Stack level too deep error in Ruby on Rails

Question

I\'m having a stack level too deep error using Ruby 1.8.7 with Rails 3.0.4 and with the rails console I performed the following commands.

Answer 1

I had a "stack-level too deep" issue too. it was due to recursiveness in one of my functions and had been caused by a typo as you can see from below:

def has_password?(submitted_password)
  encrypt_password == encrypt(submitted_password)
end

private

def encrypt_password
  self.salt = make_salt unless has_password?(password)
  self.encrypted_password = encrypt(password)
end

I realised I had to change the second line to encrypted and it worked. Just checkout for recursion in your code it must be happening somewhere. Unfortunately I can't be of better use since I can't look at all your code files.