Hi.
Ive run into a problem when trying to create scaffold code and using database tables that have the underscore character in them. I have 2 tables, my_users and my_privileges. my_user has a foreign key that links into my_privileges.
So what I did was generate scaffold code with the following lines: ruby script/generate scaffold my_user ruby script/generate scaffold my_privilege
In models/my_user.rb I added: belongs_to :my_privilege
And in models/my_privilege.rb I added: has_many :my_users
Then in the views/my_users/show.rhtml, I added the following line: <%= @my_user.my_privilege.name %>
However, I then get the following error: "You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred when evaluating nil.name"
I then tried all this without the underscore in the table name, using users and privileges as the tables names, and then generated the scaffold code witht the following lines:
ruby script/generate scaffold user ruby script/generate scaffold privilege
And then added the following to models/user.rb belongs_to :privilege And the following to models/privilege.rb has_many :users
And then in views/users/show.rhtml, I have the following line: <%= @user.privilege.name %>
And this works fine, and shows the name field in the privileges table.
So what I would like to know, is what is the correct way to generate scaffold code that will be using a table with the underscore character in it? Is there another way to do this or is there perhaps something that I am doing wrong?
Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.
Regards. /Cole
