Found my problem: I needed to call the attributes array directly on
each definition object.

<% @word.definitions.each do |h| %>
  <% h.attributes.each do |i| %>
        <p>
                <%=h i %>
        </p>
  <% end %>
<% end %>

On Aug 31, 2:04 am, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> 2009/8/31 brianp <brian.o.pea...@gmail.com>:
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hey,
> > So I keep getting "undefined method `each' for #<Definition:
> > 0x28fa154>". The call that gets made returns 1 word object with 2
> > definition objects. I can verify both definition objects get returned
> > with all there attributes because I can output data like this:
>
> >        <% @word.definitions.eachdo |h| %>
> >                        <p>
> >                                <%=h h.definition %>
> >                        </p>
> >                        <p>
> >                                <%=h h.id %>
> >                        </p>
> >        <% end %>
>
> > But I'd like to not write out every definition attribute so I attempt
> > to loop those as well like this:
>
> >        <% @word.definitions.eachdo |h| %>
> >                <% h.eachdo |i| %>
> >                        <p>
> >                                <%=h h.i %>
> >                        </p>
> >                <% end %>
> >        <% end %>
>
> > But get the above mentioned error. My guess is I'm getting a returned
> > data type that is not an array? So I can't loop them the same way?
> > Your suggestions would be very helpful, thanks.
>
> If you are trying to iterate through the columns of the definition
> object object you can use the content_columns array, so
> h.content_columns.eachdo |column|
>   # column.name contains the column name
>   # h.send(column.name) will return the value
> end
>
> Colin
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