Hi Bill, I didn't notice your response a while ago. I did try out all three "method" displays. They all returned a slew of methods, even the most restrictive one, private_methods.
One of the strangest results to me is: >> expense = Expense.find(:first) => #<Expense id: 1, vendor: "Z01-2010.06.26 (Z01-Test)", description: "Added new vendor", [snip] >> expense.vendor => nil Clearly the vendor attribute of the first expense record in not nil, as expense.vendor reports BTW, the vendor attribute represents the (artificial vendor name) rather than a vendor id because I've got another problem, which I reported in one of the other posts on this thread. Thanks for weighing in here about my problem. Things are looking up. Best wishes, Richard On Jul 16, 11:06 am, Bill Walton <bwalton...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Richard, > > On Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 9:32 AM, RichardOnRails wrote:> > >http://rails.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Associations/ClassM... > > informs me that the following methods will be generated in Expense: > > > vendor > > vendor= > > vendor.nil > > > 1. Are my expectations correct? > > 2. What do I have to do to get them generated? (I can't find any such > > methods defined anywhere.) > > In the Rails console, try these: > > Expense.methods > Expense.public_methods > Expense.private_methods > > One of the things that takes some getting used to with Rails is how > much it does a lot for you behind the scenes. > > HTH, > Bill -- 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-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
