I have a rather large table that has several fields with null values for later use. However, as the project matures, more fields may be used. I am using RoR to gather data, and do a visual check on data moved from some legacy applications, to see if they are correct. So therefore, I sort of want to have columns from different tables next to each other for comparison. However, I want to make this easy on the eye, and if the column on one side has a nil, I don''t want to display it. I know I can go thru my model and select the fields to display, but wonder how rails could cope with these nil values? I have tried to use some suggestions found in the group such as: xxx.find (params[:id], :select => ''title'',''first'' and so forth, so no avail. Any suggestions? Thanks, Mike Buckley -- ------------------------------ -- ------------------------------ [img]http://www.mjbuckley.org/gmail-2.png[/img] _______________________________________________ Rails mailing list Rails-1W37MKcQCpIf0INCOvqR/iCwEArCW2h5@public.gmane.org http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails