I am trying to pull the name of the Artist from the Albums database.

These are my two models

class Album < ActiveRecord::Base

  belongs_to :artist

  validates_presence_of :title
  validates_length_of :title, :minimum => 5
 end

class Artist < ActiveRecord::Base

  has_many :albums

end

And here is the Albums Controller

 def index
 @ albums = Album.all

 respond_to do |format|
   format.html # index.html.erb
   format.xml  { render :xml => @albums }
 end
end

And the View from the index:

<% @albums.each do |album| %>
  <tr>
    <td><%=h album.id %></td>
    <td><%=h album.title %></td>
    <td><%=h album.artist.name %></td>
  </tr
<% end %>

My end result html is coming out like this for the artist field!

#

and if i set it to artist.name

I get this: undefined method `name' for nil:NilClass