undefined method `rfc822' for nil:NilClass
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I was chugging along with fullcalendar in rails 3.2 on ruby 1.9.3-p320, made a few custom routes to my eventsController and then made these routes into fullcalendar eventSources

     #config/routes.rb
     match '/my_events', :to => 'events#my_events', :as => "my_events"
     
     #calendar.js
        {
            url: '/my_events',
            color: '#33FDC0',
            textColor: 'black',
            ignoreTimezone: true
        },

     #EventsController
     def my_events
  
       @events = current_user.events

       respond_to do |format|
        format.html # index.html.erb
        format.json { render json: @events }
       end
     end

The events don't show up though (although they are creating I can get to them through /events/:id and in the console).

In the JS console in Chrome I'm getting this error:

        GET http://localhost:3000/my_events?start=1341118800&end=1341723600&_=1342200460434 500 (Internal Server Error)

Which on the page itself looks like this:

#NoMethodError in EventsController#my_events#

###undefined method `rfc822' for nil:NilClass###