Validating to see if item can be destroyed

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Hey all. I think I flooded #rubyonrails too much I'm not getting replies anymore.. hehe.

Let's say I have two models: Idea and IdeaImage. Idea has_many :idea_images and IdeaImage belongs_to :idea. Here's my question: how do I allow deletion _only if_ there is more than 1 idea_image left in idea?

Here are the different scenarios I've tried:

http://pastie.caboo.se/151482

I'm stumped :o

Thanks,

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Ok, super weird... I put a debugger:

  def validate_as_destroyable     debugger     if idea.idea_images.size <= 1       return false     end   end

in the debugger i type idea. it works. i type idea.idea_images. it works. in my log i still get the same error though...

NoMethodError (You have a nil object when you didn't expect it! The error occurred while evaluating nil.idea_images):     /app/models/idea_image.rb:25:in `validate_as_destroyable'

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I've fallen into this trap SO MANY times before...

It was failing because I was using attachment_fu and the thumbnails' idea_id were nil. Ugh.. sorry for wasting your time (and mine, haha!)