Great.. I knew it had to be something so simple.. You helped me get past the brick wall!
I had not even considered that nearly 70% of my counties have no coordinator!!!! DOH! thanks for your help On May 26, 10:13 am, Michael Pavling <[email protected]> wrote: > On 26 May 2011 15:09, Aaron Mills <[email protected]> wrote: > > > This is now correct but the original issue is still > > there.. which is when I try and call state.county.name or > > coordinator.state.name or county.state.name. > > > I get this error: > > undefined method `firstname' for nil:NilClass > > That's a *different* error to what you had before. > That's telling you that the thing you're trying to call ".firstname" > on is nil. ie: there is no coordinator for the given county. > > You can guard against this error any number of ways, an easy one being: > <%= county.coordinator.firstname if county.coordinator %> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
