Nil object problem in Rails 2.0.2

Rails
#1

I think my problem is that Rails is not seeing the private method “def
author_age” that is holding the result of the query.
Do I suppose to put this in the Controller and not in the model?
How does the object @results get known to Rails?

Here is my code:

class Author < ActiveRecord::Base

has_many :books

def author_age
@results = Author.find :all, :conditions => [“age = ?”,
params[:authors]]
end
end

I have this on view\authors\show.html

<% @results.each do |result| %>

<% end %>

Author Name

Age
<%=h result.name %> <%=h result.age %>

Cypray

#2

On Dec 6, 3:03 pm, Jay M. [email protected] wrote:

I think my problem is that Rails is not seeing the private method “def
author_age” that is holding the result of the query.

It’s not a private method.

Do I suppose to put this in the Controller and not in the model?
How does the object @results get known to Rails?

You’re only showing a portion of your code, but the view sees instance
variables of the corresponding controller, not of models.

Fred