# Problem with attribute name **URL:** \ **Category:** Ruby\ **Created:** [October 25, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-attribute-name/118350 "2007-10-25T23:15:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:15pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-attribute-name/118350/1 "2007-10-25T23:15:53Z")
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 ☹ ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:20pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-attribute-name/118350/2 "2007-10-25T23:20:56Z")
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 ☹ 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? > **[ActiveRecord::Aggregations::ClassMethods](https://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations/ClassMethods.html)** > > Active Record implements aggregation through a macro-like class method called composed\_of for representing attributes as value objects. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2007, 11:41pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-attribute-name/118350/3 "2007-10-25T23:41:03Z")
On Oct 25, 6:20 pm, Daniel W. [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid) wrote: > > aux2= Translation.find\_by\_id(1).message > > for that model? > > ## [http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations/ClassMet](http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveRecord/Aggregations/ClassMet)… > > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - 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. ---
**Author:** ![unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/4bbf92/32.png) [@unknown](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unknown)\ **Post date:** [October 26, 2007, 1:32am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/problem-with-attribute-name/118350/4 "2007-10-26T01:32:43Z")
On Oct 25, 6:38 pm, removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid wrote: > > > “translations” i write > > > Translation.find\_by\_id(1).‘message’ but nothing works. Any idea how > > > - Show quoted text - > > 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.- Hide quoted text - > > - Show quoted text - 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.