Problem with attribute name

Ruby
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Hi, i’m new at ruby on rails and i have this little problem. I have a
table named “translations”. Translations has “id”, “message” and
“description” as attributes. When i try to get information from
“translations” i write

aux1 = Translation.find_by_id(1).description

and no problem with that, but when i write this

aux2= Translation.find_by_id(1).message

it return something like #Message:0x4851f70

i’ve tried with Translation.find_by_id(1).“message” or
Translation.find_by_id(1).‘message’ but nothing works. Any idea how
should i rescue the value??. I can’t rename the attribute on data
base :frowning:

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unknown wrote:

Hi, i’m new at ruby on rails and i have this little problem. I have a
table named “translations”. Translations has “id”, “message” and
“description” as attributes. When i try to get information from
“translations” i write

aux1 = Translation.find_by_id(1).description

and no problem with that, but when i write this

aux2= Translation.find_by_id(1).message

it return something like #Message:0x4851f70

i’ve tried with Translation.find_by_id(1).“message” or
Translation.find_by_id(1).‘message’ but nothing works. Any idea how
should i rescue the value??. I can’t rename the attribute on data
base :frowning:

Did you design the model? When you see something like Message:0x4851f70,
that’s usually an instance of a class. Are you using aggregate objects
for that model?

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On Oct 25, 6:20 pm, Daniel W. [email protected] wrote:

aux2= Translation.find_by_id(1).message
for that model?

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations/ClassMet…

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Hi, i’m working with an existing model. There’s another table named
“messages” and it’s related with translations. Translations
belongs_to :message and message has_many :translations. Translation
has a “message_id” attribute. Maybe there’s a name confusion there,
between the table and the atribute, but with “description” i have no
problem.

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On Oct 25, 6:38 pm, [email protected] wrote:

“translations” i write
Translation.find_by_id(1).‘message’ but nothing works. Any idea how

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Hi, i’m working with an existing model. There’s another table named
“messages” and it’s related with translations. Translations
belongs_to :message and message has_many :translations. Translation
has a “message_id” attribute. Maybe there’s a name confusion there,
between the table and the atribute, but with “description” i have no
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definitely the problem is with the name, because if i put something
like

aux2= Translation.find_by_id(1).message.name

where “name” is attribute of “messages”, there’s no problem. There’s a
confusion between the name of the table and the name of the attributes
from Translation table.