I'm trying to generate rows in a HTML table in my view (see below) but: zone[loc.to_sym] .... seems to be nil as I keep getting the error : undefined method `each' for nil:NilClass for this line gvim ************* Controller ******************** class MainController < ApplicationController def home @locations = %w(Africa America Arctic Asia Atlantic Australia Europe Brazil Canada Chile Indian Mexico Pacific US Misc) end ****************** View ********************* <% zones = { US: { 'US/Alaska' => 'Alaska', 'US/Aleutian' => 'Aleutian', 'US/Arizona' => 'Arizona', 'US/Central' => 'Central', 'US/East-Indiana' => 'East Indiana', 'US/Eastern' => 'Eastern', 'US/Hawaii' => 'Hawaii', 'US/Indiana-Starke' => 'Indiana Starke', 'US/Michigan' => 'Michigan', 'US/Mountain' => 'Mountain', 'US/Pacific' => 'Pacific', 'US/Pacific-New' => 'Pacific New', 'US/Samoa' => 'Samoa' }, Miscellaneous: { Cuba:'Cuba', Egypt:'Egypt', Eire:'Eire', Greenwich:'Greenwich', Hongkong:'Hongkong', Iceland:'Iceland', Iran:'Iran', Israel:'Israel', Jamaica:'Jamaica', Japan:'Japan', Kwajalein:'Kwajalein', Libya:'Libya', Navajo:'Navajo', Poland:'Poland', Portugal:'Portugal', Singapore:'Singapore', Turkey:'Turkey', Zulu:'Zulu' } ........ <other regions> .......... } %> <% @locations.each do |loc| %> <tr> <td align="right"> </td> <td><select name="<%= loc %>1"> <option value="" selected="selected"><%= loc %></option> <% zones[loc.to_sym].each do |key, val| %> <option value="<%= key %>"><%= val %></option> <% end %> </select> </td> <td align="right"> </td><td></td> </tr> <% end %> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rubyonrails-talk/5374D74A.7090001%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.