Hi

You don't do find on an instance of the model, you do it on the model  
itself.
So your find should be

Stuff.find( :all, :select => 'mp1')

Simon

On Wed, 08 Jul 2009 07:00:47 +0800, Mark Preston  
<[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Newbie question, trying to get data from a mysql database. I can write
> to it fine, but when I try to retrieve it I get the following error
> message:
>
> C:/Ruby/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.3.2/lib/active_record/attribute_methods.rb:260:in
> `method_missing': undefined method `find' for #<Stuff id: nil, mp1: nil,
> mp2: nil> (NoMethodError)
>
>         from C:/rubyapps/stuff/lib/get.rb:16:in `m'
>
>         from C:/rubyapps/stuff/lib/get.rb:10:in `initialize'
>
>         from C:/rubyapps/stuff/lib/get.rb:22:in `new'
>
>         from C:/rubyapps/stuff/lib/get.rb:22
>
>
> This is the code below.
>
> Thanks for your help
>
>
> require 'environment'
> require 'rubygems'
> require 'Stuff'
>
>
> class Get
>
>   def initialize
>
>     m
>   end
>
>   def m
>     @mystuff =Stuff.new
>
>    b = @mystuff.find( :all, :select => 'mp1')
>    puts "mp1 has the following values: #{b}"
>
>   end
> end
>
> Get.new

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