I know this doesn't help the core problem, but it might help in
debugging to set that column to 'NOT NULL' in your database, and set a
default value.
On May 11, 8:26 am, Tom Z Meinlschmidt <to...@meinlschmidt.org> wrote:
> Sean,
> did you check your database? Is user_id filled up correctly?
>
> tom
>
> Sean Six wrote:
> > Class User < ActiveRecord::Base
> > has_many :articles
>
> > class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
> > belongs_to :user
>
> > After a user posts an article, I want to include their username. I
> > presume I should just be able to use <%= article.user.screen_name %> in
> > the articles/index.
> > This give me:
>
> > You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
> > The error occurred while evaluating nil.screen_name
>
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> Tomas Meinlschmidt, MS {MCT, MCP+I, MCSE, AER}, NetApp Filer/NetCache
>
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