Table Help

[Emeka1 (Emeka)]

I am new to Rails and cannot figure the problem I'm having. I am using Locomotive to do my development, but for some reason the items in my database do not show up when I try to call them in my rhtml file. I am checking to see if the database table is empty by doing a .blank? method, but it is always returning true even though the database is populated. Does anyone have any idea why this might be happening? Thanks in advance.