Rails - Apr 2006 - what happened to my increment_counter method?

this used to work for me. i started re-writing my little app and now  
it doesn''t work.

here''s my models:
class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
   has_many :people
end
class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
   belongs_to :Company, :counter_cache => true
end

then i go into my console and say:
c = Company.find(:first)
c.increment_counter

and its all like "waaaaaaH"
NoMethodError: undefined method `increment_counter'' for #<Company: 
0x259e3b0>
         from /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-1.14.2/ 
lib/active_record/base.rb:1792:in `method_missing''
         from (irb):8


if i type:
Company.inc and then hit tab, .increment_counter shows up.

i''m confused.
Rails 1.1.2
i do have a people_count column in my company table

zuh?

Quoting travis laduke <wrong@socal.rr.com>:
> this used to work for me. i started re-writing my little app and now  
> it doesn''t work.
> 
> here''s my models:
> class Company < ActiveRecord::Base
>   has_many :people
> end
> class Person < ActiveRecord::Base
>   belongs_to :Company, :counter_cache => true
> end
> 
> then i go into my console and say:
> c = Company.find(:first)
> c.increment_counter
You have to say which counter!  A class can have more than one.  But,
that is probably a bad idea.  You should use the proper Rails idiom
and let the code handle it:

c = Company.find(:first)
c.people.create(...

Jeffrey