Four days on rails - nil object when you didnt expect it

Rails
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Hi all,

Im trying to get my head around rails and to help along Im working
through “four days on rails” as this seems to give a good real world
example with multiple tables and relationships (the main thing I cant
work out!)

Ive got stuck. Some help would be really good here.

The controller has this code:

def list
@category_pages, @categories = paginate(:category, :per_page => 10,
:order_by -> ‘category’)
end

and the view has this (just the bit thats causing the issue not all of
it)

<% for category in @categories %>

<%= category["category"] %> <%= category["created_on"].strftime("%I:%M %p %d-%b-%y") %> <%= category["updated_on"].strftime("%I:%M %p %d-%b-%y") %> <%= link_to 'Edit', :action => 'edit', :id => category%> <%= link_to 'Delete', {:action => 'destroy', :id => category}, :confirm => "Are you sure you want to delete this category?"%> <% end %>

But its throwing the error nil object when you didn’t expect it!
The error occured while ecaluating nil.strftime

Can someone point out the problem here? I think its right, and I guess
categories is passed through with the right stuff in it, the db has the
field defined, with the following data in it:

±—±---------±--------------------±--------------------+
| id | category | create_on | updated_on |
±—±---------±--------------------±--------------------+
| 1 | test | 2006-06-13 18:33:00 | 2006-06-13 18:33:47 |
| 2 | another | 2006-06-13 18:33:00 | 2006-06-13 18:33:52 |
| 3 | better | 2006-06-13 18:34:00 | 2006-06-13 18:34:43 |
±—±---------±--------------------±--------------------+

Any help would be appreciated.

Also any pointers to tutorials that can help me get my head around this
would also be appreciated.

Regards

Jonathan

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you got an superfluous ‘d’ in ‘created_on’

‘category[“created_on”]’ can be written ‘category.created_on’

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Datum: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 21:56:44 +0800
Von: Jonathan G. [email protected]
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it

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Hi Peter

Thanks for that :slight_smile: Couldnt see it.

Many thanks again

Jonathan