Getting undefined method for ActiveRecord::Relation

Question

I have the following models

class Book < ActiveRecord::Base   has_many :chapters end 

and

class Chapter < ActiveRecord::Base     belongs_to :book end 

in /chapters/edit/id I get

undefined method `book' for #<ActiveRecord::Relation:0x0000010378d5d0> 

when i try to access book like this

@chapter.book 

Answer 1

Looks like @chapter is not a single Chapter object. If @chapter is initialized something like this:

@chapter = Chapter.where(:id => params[:id]) 

then you get a Relation object (that can be treated as a collection, but not a single object). So to fix this you need to retrieve a record using find_by_id, or take a first one from the collection

@chapter = Chapter.where(:id => params[:id]).first 

or

@chapter = Chapter.find_by_id(params[:id])