Problem solved thank you for your help I appreciated instead of all i called
:first it was listing an array thats all thanks

Dhruva Sagar wrote:
> 
> The error implies that the find returned no records and you were trying to
> access it in the view to display it perhaps ?
> 
> Try the following :
> 
> @bus_time = BusTime.find(:first, :order => "weekday", :conditions =>
> ["time > ? AND weekday = ?", Time.now, Date::DAYNAMES[Date.today.wday]])
> 
> If it still gives you the same error, please look at the logs and check
> the
> SQL query running in the background, if it's returning no records see
> what's
> wrong in the query / database.
> 
> Thanks & Regards,
> Dhruva Sagar.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Terry6004 <nish.pa...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
>>
>> Hi Dhruva,
>>
>> I tried this and get: No method error You have a nil object when you
>> didn't
>> expect it!
>> The error occurred while evaluating nil.weekday
>>
>> I would also like to point out that in my def show I have the following:
>>
>> @bus_time = BusTime.find(:first, :order => "weekday", :conditions =>
>> ["time
>> > ?", Time.now])
>>
>> This helps me to get all the next available times on that day, can you
>> see
>> what I am trying to do, I am trying to get the latest times available for
>> a
>> bus on a particular day because sunday's times are different please could
>> you help thanks for the very quick reply
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Dhruva Sagar wrote:
>> >
>> > I can give you an example, you would have to improvise on the same
>> > according
>> > to your needs.
>> >
>> > @bus_times = BusTime.find(:all, :conditions => ['weekday =
>> > ?', Date::DAYNAMES[Date.today.wday]])
>> >
>> > The above would give you all the bus_time records where weekday equals
>> > todays day...
>> > Hope it helps.
>> >
>> > Thanks & Regards,
>> > Dhruva Sagar.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 3:01 PM, Terry6004 <nish.pa...@hotmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >>
>> >> Hi all, I am a newbie and just recently started to create apps with
>> ruby
>> >> on
>> >> rails so please go easy on me :)
>> >>
>> >> I have an app which has a database in mysql which is called bus_times
>> and
>> >> consists of 3 columns which are: id, time and weekday. Time is set to
>> >> time
>> >> and weekday is a string. So it looks something like this:
>> >>
>> >> 1   monday   20:00:00
>> >> 2   tuesday   12:00:00
>> >> 3   wednesday  3:00:00
>> >> 4   wednesday  15:00:00 ..etc
>> >>
>> >> What I want to do is to pick out the times from my database and show
>> them
>> >> on
>> >> my view depending on what the date is today. Hence assign my strings
>> >> mon,tues,wed etc to an actual date so like today is wednesday I want
>> it
>> >> to
>> >> pick out just the wednesday times. How do I do this I have looked
>> >> everywhere
>> >> and cannot find a solution thanks in advance...
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