On Jul 21, 2012, at 8:52 PM, James Harris wrote: > In the console doing contact = Contact.find(1) finds my contact and the > contact.company.company_name returned the correct company name. > > Having contact.company.company_name in the index.html file returns an > error: > > undefined method `company_name' for nil:NilClass
You can figure out why that is nil, or you can just guard around it: contact.company.try(:company_name) My guess is that this particular contact does not have a company associated with it. Walter > > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > -- > 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > -- 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 rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.