hi,
i m new to ruby on rails, this question might sound stupid, but i m really confused by the relationship between attributes of the model and the column in that model table.
i have two tables 'institutions' and 'alerts' as below:
Institutions: id site created_at updated_at 1 default null null
alerts id institution_id name value 1 1 testname testvalue
the corresponding models are:
institution.rb class Institution < ActiveRecord::Base has_one :alerts
def find_alerts(institution_id) Alert.find_all(institution_id) end end
orthogonal to this, but your associations are borked - that should be
has_many :alerts
and then you can do away with that find method and do @institution.alerts
from irb i tried: a = Alert.find_all(1) it showed me the correct record but if i tried: a.name
that dies because your find_all method returns an array and arrays don't have a name method. Your view doesn't display the name because you've put attr_accessor in your model: Active Record creates accessor functions for you, by using attr_accessor you've overridden those with versions that don't look at the values Active Record fetches from the database.
Fred