From: bakanon@...
Date: 2007-10-26T06:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with attribute name

On Oct 25, 6:20 pm, Daniel Waite <rabbitb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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/ClassMet...
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Hi, i'm working with an existing model. There's another table named
"messages" and it's related with translations. Translations
belongs_to :message and message has_many :translations. Translation
has a "message_id" attribute. Maybe there's a name confusion there,
between the table and the atribute, but with "description" i have no
problem.