From: Daniel Waite <rabbitblue@...>
Date: 2007-10-26T06:20:54+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with attribute name

unknown wrote:
> Hi, i'm new at ruby on rails and i have this little problem. I have a
> table named "translations".  Translations has "id",  "message" and
> "description" as attributes. When i try to get information from
> "translations" i  write
> 
> aux1 = Translation.find_by_id(1).description
> 
> and no problem with that, but when i write this
> 
> aux2= Translation.find_by_id(1).message
> 
> it return something like #Message:0x4851f70
> 
> i've tried with Translation.find_by_id(1)."message" or
> Translation.find_by_id(1).'message' but nothing works. Any idea how
> should i rescue the value??. I can't rename the attribute on data
> base :(

Did you design the model? When you see something like Message:0x4851f70, 
that's usually an instance of a class. Are you using aggregate objects 
for that model?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations/ClassMethods.html
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