For in loop with only one element not working

Rails
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Hi

I have the following code:

@lunchtimes = Lunchtime.find_by_dayname("#{todayname}")
for l in @lunchtimes do
# i = lunch.lunchfrom
# j = lunch.lunchto
# while i < j do
# id="#{session[:dateviewing]}/#{i.strftime(’%H:%M:00’)}/#
{lunch.therapist_id}"
# page[id].replace “

LUNCH”
# end
# i += 15.minutes
end

I’ve put the hashes in to see where the code is failing BTW!

All I’m trying to do is loop through the search results from
@lunchtimes. At the moment the query is returning only one record:

=> #<Lunchtime id: 4, therapist_id: 1, dayname: “Thursday”, lunchfrom:
“2000-01-01 12:00:00”, lunchto: “2000-01-01 13:00:00”, effective:
“2009-06-04”, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil>

And, as such I’m getting the following error:

NoMethodError (undefined method each' for #<Lunchtime:0x21c1c70>): /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.2.2/lib/active_record/ attribute_methods.rb:260:inmethod_missing’
/app/controllers/appointment_controller.rb:178:in
`__instance_exec0’

With more than one returned search results it works …

I know it’s probably something simple … but can anyone tell me where
I’m going wrong. I’m sure similar code is working in other parts of my
program.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Darren

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2009/6/4 Ruby on Rails: Talk [email protected]:

  #      id="#{session[:dateviewing]}/#{i.strftime(‘%H:%M:00’)}/#
@lunchtimes. At the moment the query is returning only one record:
  /app/controllers/appointment_controller.rb:178:in
`__instance_exec0’

With more than one returned search results it works …

I am not an expert in this but I understood that find_by_attribute
returned only the first matching record, in which case the result
would never be an array. If you want to get all of them then you
should use find_all_by_attribute and the result will always be an
array, possibly with only one element.

I may well be wrong on this though.

Colin