I believe I solved this or at least I understand the cause. My index page submits my form_data to my show view which calls the controller and queries for expired files @editorials Array. My view then extracts this data and I assumed I could then pass in info gathered
I did a test and placed my Directory.find_by_directory_id(x.directory_id).full_path directly in my view and things work fine. So that being said this is not clean at all to me and to put this in the view does make sense. I think I'm going to read up on Active Record and create a smarter query when that pulls from both legacy tables. If there is other directions that could be recommended let me know.
Thanks for the responses/