nil object problem in Rails 2.0.2

rubyonrails-talk
#1

I think my problem is that Rails is not seeing the private method "def
author_age" that is holding the result of the query.
Do I suppose to put this in the Controller and not in the model?
How does the object @results get known to Rails?

Here is my code:

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :books

def author_age
    @results = Author.find :all, :conditions => ["age = ?",
params[:authors]]
     end
end

I have this on view\authors\show.html

<table border="1">
<tr>
<td width="20%"><p align="center"><i><b>Author Name</b></i></td>
<td width="20%"><p align="center"><i><b>Age</b></i></td>
</tr>

<% @results.each do |result| %>

<tr>

<td><%=h result.name %></td>
<td><%=h result.age %></td>
</tr>
<% end %>
</table>

Cypray

#2

I think my problem is that Rails is not seeing the private method "def
author_age" that is holding the result of the query.

It's not a private method.

Do I suppose to put this in the Controller and not in the model?
How does the object @results get known to Rails?

You're only showing a portion of your code, but the view sees instance
variables of the corresponding controller, not of models.

Fred