Imagine two classes: class Parent include DataMapper::Resource
property :id, Serial property :name, String ... class Child include DataMapper::Resource property :id, Serial property :position, Integer, :required => true, :default => -1 belongs_to :parent, :key => true When I do child.parent.name, I sometimes get an error indicating parent is nil. How is that possible when belongs_to defaults to required? Please let me know how I can set up my associations so that this nil parent can never happen. Thanks. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DataMapper" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to datamapper+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to datamapper@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/datamapper. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.