From: John Date: 2006-02-06T05:08:20+09:00 Subject: Re: Cookbook2 tutorial error: The error occured while evaluating nil.name Well I figured it out in case anyone searches for this same problem... The receipe table had a row with a category_id of 0. Note that the category table does not have a row for 0. Not sure how this wound up in the DB like that, but I manually fixed it by changing the 0 to a 1. Hope this helps someone else learning ruby!