@story is nil but Story.find(:first) shows a result

[gleb]

I am working on Simply Rails 2. This problem occurs around page 346

I have several stories Story.find(first) returns

#<Story id: 1, name: "Ogg invades", link: "http://climatecalm.org", created_at: "2009-07-18 10:44:51", updated_at: "2009-07-28 17:09:33", user_id: 1, votes_count: 3>

This is an extract from show.html.erb

<h2>
  <span id="vote_score">
    Score: <%= @story.votes_count %>
  </span>
  <%= @story.name %>
</h2>

It gives the error:
You have a nil object when you didn't expect it!
The error occurred while evaluating nil.votes_count

This page was working. Does anybody know what's happening?

[calkie_f]

Does your show action in StoriesController find a story and assign it to @story?

[gleb]

The show action was placed below the fetch_stories action that is protected
Thanks for the hint

[ReggieB]

Probably easiest if you could post your controller code.

[Mittineague]

Page 346 is functional tests. My show.html.erb file looks like

<h2>
  <span id="vote_score">
    Score: <%= @story.votes.size %>
  </span>
  <%= @story.name %>
</h2>
......

Maybe you missed an edit?