Rails - Mar 2006 - Nil Object Error

I''m a complete newbie when it comes to Ruby on Rails.  I have lots of 
experience in PHP, but yesterday was the first time I sat down and began 
developing using Ruby on Rails (I''m impressed!).

Anyway, I''m having a problem with edit/update of records when using
form
validation.  Here are my files for reference.

ticket.rb
===========class Ticket < ActiveRecord::Base
	belongs_to :agent
	belongs_to :status
	belongs_to :priority
	belongs_to :category

	validates_presence_of :employee_id, :date, :agent_id, :status_id, 
:priority_id, :category_id, :summary
end


ticket_controller.rb
===========class TicketController < ApplicationController
	layout "standard-layout"
	scaffold :Ticket

	def edit
	  @ticket = Ticket.find(params[:id])
		@employees = Employee.find_all
		@agents = Agent.find_all
		@statuses = Status.find_all
		@priorities = Priority.find_all
		@categories = Category.find_all
	end

	def update
    @ticket = Ticket.find(params[:id])
    if @ticket.update_attributes(params[:ticket])
      redirect_to :action => ''show'', :id => @ticket
    else
      render :action => ''edit''
    end
  end
end

Basically, my problems began when I started using validation.  If I 
complete the edit form ensuring everything validates, everything works 
fine.  If I complete the edit form and leave out an entry to test 
validation, I get the following error:

You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You might have expected an instance of Array.
The error occured while evaluating nil.inject

This error appears to occur when it tries to go back to the edit view. 
At the top of my edit view is a "collection_select" that uses
@employees
for population.  That appears to be what it''s erroring on.

It seems as if when it goes back to the edit view, it''s not grabbing
the
same things that it is upon first call to the edit view.

Thanks for any help that can be provided.

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> 	def edit
>
...
>       render :action => ''edit''
> You have a nil object when you didn''t expect it!
You need to pass the id back or check the assignment otherwise @ticket 
is empty.

 render :action => ''edit'', :id => params[:id]

or

@ticket = Ticket.find(params[:id]) if Ticket.find(params[:id])


_tony

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