Attribute value nil
- by mridula
Can someone tell me why is this happening?
I have created a social networking website using Ruby on Rails. This is my first time programming with RoR.
I have a model named "Friendship" which contains an attribute "blocked" to indicate whether the user has blocked another user.
When I run the following in IRB -
friendship = u.friendships.where(:friend_id => 22).first
IRB gives me -
Friendship Load (0.6ms) SELECT `friendships`.* FROM `friendships` WHERE `friendships`.`user_id` = 17 AND `friendships`.`friend_id` = 22 LIMIT 1
=> #<Friendship id: 33, user_id: 17, friend_id: 22, created_at: "2012-04-07 10:29:49", updated_at: "2012-04-07 10:29:49", blocked: 1>
As u can see, the "blocked" attribute has value '1'.
But when I run the following
1.9.2-p290 :030 > friendship.blocked
=> nil
- it says, the value of blocked is 'nil' and not '1'.
Why is this happening?
This could be a very silly mistake but I am new to RoR, so kindly help me!
I initially didn't include the accessor method for 'blocked'.. I tried that, and still its giving the same result..
Following is the Friendship model..
class Friendship < ActiveRecord::Base
belongs_to :friend, :class_name => "User"
validates_uniqueness_of :friend_id , :scope => :user_id
attr_accessor :blocked
attr_accessible :blocked
end
Here is the schema of the table:
1.9.2-p290 :009 > friendship.class
=> Friendship(id: integer, user_id: integer, friend_id: integer, created_at: datetime, updated_at: datetime, blocked: integer)
