Rails - Mar 2005 - Column value become nil

Hi, 
this is a piece of my index.rhtml page

<%= @bolle.inspect %>
        <!-- Scansione delle bolle -->
        <% for @bolla in @bolle %>
                <b><%= @bolla.databolla.inspect %></b>
                <tr>
                        <td><%= link_to @bolla.id, { :action =>
"visualizza", :id => @bolla.id }%></td>
                        <td><%= @bolla.databolla.inspect
%></td>
                        <td><%= @bolla.client.ragionesociale
%></td>
                        <td><%= @bolla.numerocolli %></td>
                        <td><%= @bolla.aspetto_esterno.descrizione
%></td>
                </tr>
        <% end %>
        </table>


I just show an HTML table with some values. It was working fine. Until
now, when the @bolla.databolla is nil! On the DB the value is a
date... the @bolle.inspect say so:
[#"1", "oratrasporto"=>"10:02:00",
"client_id"=>"1",
"numerocolli"=>"3", "id"=>"54",
"aspetto_esterno_id"=>"2",
"causale_trasporto_id"=>"1",
"note"=>"-", "infovettore"=>"",
"stato"=>"inattesa",
"datatrasporto"=>"16/03/2005",
"databolla"=>"16/03/2005"}>]

but @bolla.databolla.inspect say nil

now I''m a little confused... someone can give me a suggestion... Ive
tried to shutdown webrick and postgres too without changes.
Thanks,
Enrico

-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing"
 Edmund Burke

Hi,
with the help of octopod on the IRC channel I''ve solved the problem.
He has suggested that maybe the inspect shows the value before rails
typecasts it, and the typecase turns it to nil, which could be caused
by a format problem with the date.
So I''ve turned off the postgresql (8.0.1) european date. Now the
datestyle  is the default, previously it was datestyle = ''SQL,
DMY''.

If you''ll need to change the date to the european you should use
.strftime("%d/%m/%Y")

I''ve solved it in this way. Hope this will help someone someday.
Enrico

-- 
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil
is for good men to do nothing"
 Edmund Burke