Rails - Mar 2005 - table lookup?

Ok, I''ve been messing with ror for a few days, but I''m stumped
here.

Here are my tables.

CREATE TABLE `steps` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `step_infos_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default ''0'',
  `translator_id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL default ''0'',
  `Sequence` int(11) NOT NULL default ''0'',
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

DROP TABLE IF EXISTS `dt_test`.`step_infos`;
CREATE TABLE `step_infos` (
  `id` int(10) unsigned NOT NULL auto_increment,
  `Name` varchar(45) NOT NULL default '''',
  `ClassName` varchar(100) NOT NULL default '''',
  `Description` varchar(45) default NULL,
  `InputFormat` varchar(45) NOT NULL default '''',
  `OutputFormat` varchar(45) NOT NULL default '''',
  `DocURL` varchar(45) default NULL,
  PRIMARY KEY  (`id`)
) ENGINE=MyISAM DEFAULT CHARSET=latin1;

what I want to do is provide a lookup. stepInfo is "metadata" that
rarely
changes. an instance of stepInfo can be used many times in steps. from step, 

want to lookup by step_infos_id into step_infos so I can go step.StepInfo.Name,
etc.

class Step < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_one :StepInfo
end

class StepInfo < ActiveRecord::Base
has_many :steps
end

this tries to put step table''s ID into stepinfo, which isn''t
what I want. I want
to lookup via stepInfoID from step...

any thoughts? I''m sure I''m missing something obvious...

Mitch Mattek wrote:
> class Step < ActiveRecord::Base
>    has_one :StepInfo
> end
	I believe you should replace has_one with belongs_to.

	Regards,
	Phillip

Phillip J. Birmingham <phillip@...> writes:
> 
> Mitch Mattek wrote:
> 
> > class Step < ActiveRecord::Base
> >    has_one :StepInfo
> > end
> 
> 	I believe you should replace has_one with belongs_to.
> 
> 	Regards,
> 	Phillip
> 
Yeah, actually, I just figured that out... am I missing something here...

if I have the parent of steps (translator) and I do a 

@items = Translator.find_all

then in the page I can do this:
<% @items.each do |@item| %>
  <% for @step in @item.steps %> (do stuff with step like @step.xxx and it
works.
but if I try to then do this:
<% @si = @step.stepInfo %>

so I could do @si.Name, etc.
I get this error:
 undefined method `Name'' for nil:NilClass
like it isn''t fetching anything into the variable @si...