From: dave.burt@...
Date: 2005-08-31T13:32:15+09:00
Subject: Re: Rails Newbie - very simple question

> My question is: given the book's author_id, what is the
> preferred/recommended way to grab the auther's information from the
> database from my book's show page?

# Try this:
Author.find(@book.author_id)

Now, this is such a basic question, I have to recommend some of the
following to get productive in Rails:
* find and go through a tutorial
* buy and go through Agile Web Development with Rails
* use the documentation at http://documentation.rubyonrails.com/ and
http://api.rubyonrails.com/

You can ask questions on the Rails mailing list
(http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails) or on IRC
(irc://irc.freenode.org/rubyonrails) as you learn.

(This isn't the most appropriate forum for Ruby on Rails specific
questions - you will get much better help from the resources I've
mentioned.)

Cheers,
Dave