Hello, in my database i have tables models,marques,cars. I wrote fixtures for models f1: id: 1 marque_id: 1 name: 100 NX f2: id: 2 marque_id: 1 name: 200 SX f3: id: 3 marque_id: 1 name: Almera f4: id: 4 marque_id: 1 name: Patrol f5: id: 5 marque_id: 1 name: Primera f6: id: 6 marque_id: 2 name: CLK f7: id: 7 marque_id: 2 name: CLS f8: id: 8 marque_id: 2 name: R f9: id: 9 marque_id: 3 name: 400 f10: id: 10 marque_id: name: 500 f11: id: 11 marque_id: 4 name: 159 f12: id: 12 marque_id: 4 name: 164 f13: id: 13 marque_id: 4 name: 163 f14: id: 14 marque_id: 5 name: V70 f15: id: 15 marque_id: 6 name: Jeep Cherokee f16: id: 16 marque_id: 7 name: 100 f17: id: 17 marque_id: 7 name: A8 f18: id: 18 marque_id: 8 name: 323 f19: id: 19 marque_id: 8 name: 929 f20: id: 20 marque_id: 9 name: Avensis f21: id: 21 marque_id: 9 name: Highlander f22: id: 22 marque_id: 9 name: Vista and for marques f1: id: 1 name: Nissan f2: id: 2 name: Mercedes-Benz f3: id: 3 name: Aixam f4: id: 4 name: Alfa Romeo f5: id: 5 name: Volvo f6: id: 6 name: Chrysler f7: id: 7 name: Audi f8: id: 8 name: Mazda f9: id: 9 name: Toyota So now i would like to generate fixture for table cars. what I do is <% marques = Marque.find_all %> <% models = Array.new %> <% Model.find_all.each do |model| %> models[model.marque_id]<<model <% end %> <% 0.upto(10) do |i| %> <% marque_i = rand marques.length %> car<%= i %>: marque_id: <%= marques[marque_i].id %> model_id: <%= models[marques[marque_i].id].id %> <% end %> But it looks like Marque.find_all doesn''t return anything because doing "marques[marque_i].id" makes error. It says, that I can not access id of object nil. My fixture loading order is defined so that first models and marques fixtures are loaded, then fixture "cars.yml". Please, help me to make <% marques = Marque.find_all %> work . Or it is not possible to make database calls from fixtures ? Thank you -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.