Can I not do things with the models in my initialize method? I have this: def initialize(args) super args i = 0 Event.find_all do |event| @lock = i i += 1 end end i is null and there are events in the database. Any ideas how I can use my models in the initialize method? Thank You, Ben Johnson E: bjohnson at contuitive.com O: 800-341-6826 M: 817-229-4258 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://rubyforge.org/pipermail/backgroundrb-devel/attachments/20060712/4dc5fd55/attachment.html