Associations not found - breaks randomly

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Hi,

I've set up an association for a 1:n-relationship, totally standard stuff. However, I sometimes get an error "Association XY not found, maybe you misspelled it?" when loading a view that makes use of the association (only something simple like <%= cur_book.author.<some property of

(contrived example, but I really only do the simplest standard

stuff).

The trouble is, I get this error maybe 20% of the time, but it happens for all associations, no matter which models are involved. Normally it works, so I don't think it has anything to do with settting up the association, table names etc. But it still happens often enough that I can't use associations, and have to resort to doing searches for the associated objects in the view, which is really ugly.

Has anybody else witnessed this kind of thing (I did a search, but couldn't find anything about it).

Thanks, Elmar

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Elmar, I suggest you tail -f your development log - you may have a mysql (or other db) connection error - or some entirely different exception.

If you have done this, then we can help out more easily with more symptoms - including mvc/controller/view code. But since this bug seems random is smells like infrastructure.

Cheers, Jodi