Rails - Jun 2009 - How do I access a my :include data in my ROR SQL results?

I am new to ROR, and I''m stuck!

My MySQL tables are setup like this:

books
------
id
book_name
author_id

authors
-------
id
author_name


my regular PHP/SQL query would look something like this:
$all_books = SELECT * FROM books LEFT JOIN authors ON
books.author_id=authors.id

so, i create this ruby call of the same query:
@all_books = Book.find( :all, :include => [:author] )


now, in PHP, i could just call
$all_books[''book_name''] or
$all_books[''author_name''] and both would work
fine

in rail, i seem to have an issue where i can call @all_books.book_name
just fine, but @all_books.author_name gives me an error

however, when i run @all_books.inspect, i can see the author_name in the
data that it spits back to me.  how do i get to that data?
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> now, in PHP, i could just call
> $all_books[''book_name''] or
$all_books[''author_name''] and both would work
> fine
> 
> in rail, i seem to have an issue where i can call @all_books.book_name
> just fine, but @all_books.author_name gives me an error
Dang.  I solved my problem.  It was so simple.

I just had to call @all_books.author.author_name
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Please read http://guides.rails.info/ before ask such a simple
questions.

Thanks,
Dmitry Polushkin

On Jun 2, 9:28 am, DL Buss
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> > now, in PHP, i could just call
> > $all_books[''book_name''] or
$all_books[''author_name''] and both would work
> > fine
>
> > in rail, i seem to have an issue where i can call @all_books.book_name
> > just fine, but @all_books.author_name gives me an error
>
> Dang.  I solved my problem.  It was so simple.
>
> I just had to call @all_books.author.author_name
> --
> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.