Rails - Feb 2006 - accessing an attribute within an embedded object

When I dump an instance variable to the web browser using object.inspect 
I get the following:

This:
<%= debug archive.inspect %>

Yields this:
#<RapturePost:0x2aaaacada118 
@attributes={\"date_created\"=>\"2006-02\"}>"

How do I access that date created value?

Neither of the following work. The don''t give me the actual date value,
only nil or blank.
archive.date_created
archive.attributes.date_created

Any suggestions?


michael

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On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:01 AM, michael wrote:
> When I dump an instance variable to the web browser using  
> object.inspect
> I get the following:
>
> This:
> <%= debug archive.inspect %>
>
> Yields this:
> #<RapturePost:0x2aaaacada118
>
@attributes={\"date_created\"=>\"2006-02\"}>"
>
> How do I access that date created value?
>
> Neither of the following work. The don''t give me the actual date  
> value,
> only nil or blank.
> archive.date_created
> archive.attributes.date_created
>
> Any suggestions?
>
>
> michael
>
>

Michael-

	You use debug without inspect. Thats where you are getting your  
errors from. try it l;ike this instead:

<%= debug archive %>

	L:eave off the inspect. Also it looks like your problem might arrise  
from you using local var instead of an @instance var but that might  
not be the case.

Cheers-

-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
Yakima Herald-Republic
WebMaster
http://yakimaherald.com
509-577-7732
ezra@yakima-herald.com

Actually, my error isn''t in the debug. I''m using debug is
simply output
my data. My error is that I cannot seem to access the date_created 
attribute.

Basically, I have the following:

@components

which has an attribute called archives that i access through:

@components.archives

@components.archives is an array of objects (database rows) that I am 
trying to access by saying:

<% for archive in @components.archives -%>
<%= debug(archive.instance) %>
<% end -%>

If I use debug(archive) without using instance, I get the following

--- !ruby/object:RapturePost
attributes:
  date_created: 2006-02

But I can''t seem to access that date_created attribute through the 
archive variable with any of the following:

archive.date_created
archive.attributes.date_created
archive.RapturePost.date_created

Any ideas?


michael




Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
> On Feb 22, 2006, at 9:01 AM, michael wrote:
> 
>>
>>
>> michael
>>
>>
> 
> 
> Michael-
> 
> 	You use debug without inspect. Thats where you are getting your
> errors from. try it l;ike this instead:
> 
> <%= debug archive %>
> 
> 	L:eave off the inspect. Also it looks like your problem might arrise
> from you using local var instead of an @instance var but that might
> not be the case.
> 
> Cheers-
> 
> -Ezra Zygmuntowicz
> Yakima Herald-Republic
> WebMaster
> http://yakimaherald.com
> 509-577-7732
> ezra@yakima-herald.com

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