Thank you very, very much!

a = 
Lender.find('7oV71d1oVtxfyS9Ra6hnUtNe31N').addresses.select('state_id_string') 

a.blank?

On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 5:05:25 PM UTC-4, Colin Law wrote:
>
> On 22 May 2015 at 20:28, Elizabeth McGurty <emcg...@gmail.com 
> <javascript:>> wrote: 
> > Walter, Stewart.... Many thanks to you.  Definitely making so much 
> progress 
> > here. 
> > 
> > All seems to be going really well, but I remain stumped at a critical 
> point 
> > 
> > Given the model, I pass from the controller @parent = Parent.object 
> > 
> > All of the field_for aspects are working really beautifully.  But in the 
> > view I need to test for a parent/child value. I know that this code is 
> > wrong: 
> > 
> > <% unless @lenders.state_id_string.blank? %>   ## @lenders is the parent 
> > model, and only the fields within that model are being returned.  I 
> thought 
> > that if I define all parent associations in the AR, then the object 
> @lenders 
> > would be aware.. 
>
> Is @lenders a single parent or an array?  Presumable an array since it 
> is plural.  In which case you can't just test state_id_string. 
> Possibly you need something like @lenders.where(some condition on 
> state_id_string), assuming that state_id_string is a database field. 
> Alternatively perhaps you want to use @lenders.each to select and test 
> them one at a time. 
>
> Colin 
>

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