Problem trying to display a variable

[Jhorra]

I feel stupid even asking this as it seems like it should be so simple. I am just working through the basics and trying to customize my scaffold. I am working on the show action right now.

Here is what I have for the show action in the controller

  def show
    @blog = Blog.find(params[:id])
  end

And here is what I have in my view

<h2><%= link_to @blog["title"], :action => 'show', :id => blog %></h2>
<p><%= @blog["body"] %></p>
<p><small><%= @blog["created_at"] %></small></p>

This is the error I get: undefined local variable or method `blog' for #<#<Class:0x35ed30c>:0x35ed2e4>

Can anyone help me out with this?

[Skyblaze]

I feel stupid even asking this as it seems like it should be so simple. I am just working through the basics and trying to customize my scaffold. I am working on the show action right now.

Here is what I have for the show action in the controller

  def show
    @blog = Blog.find(params[:id])
  end

And here is what I have in my view

<h2><%= link_to @blog["title"], :action => 'show', :id => blog %></h2>
<p><%= @blog["body"] %></p>
<p><small><%= @blog["created_at"] %></small></p>

This is the error I get: undefined local variable or method `blog' for #<#<Class:0x35ed30c>:0x35ed2e4>

Can anyone help me out with this?

what is that @blog["body"]?

[Fenrir2]

@blog["body"] is an alternative syntax for @blog.body. I think it's better to use @blog.body because (1) it's shorter (2) you'll get error messages if you do @blog.bosy but not if you do @blog["bosy"]. You can use @blog[the_attribute] if you have the attribute name in a variable.

problem is here (^^^^):

<h2><%= link_to @blog["title"], :action => 'show', :id => blog %></h2>
                                                          ^^^^

You have to use @blog instead of blog.

[Jhorra]

Doh, I never even looked at that one. I had @blog.title at first, and changed it a bunch of different ways because I thought that was the problem.