Hi, so I have an eager loading issue I''d like to get opinions on. My models are imported from an xml file and I''m able to preserve the hierarchy and use the models to_xml() method to get the whole tree back as an export. This all works fine. This is an example of structure: <manufacturers> <manufacturer> <devices> <device> <capabilities> <capability/> </capabilities> <device> <devices> </manufacturer> <manufacturers> Where I''m having an issue is eager loading of a manufacturer like so: manufacturer=Manufacturer.find(1, :include=>{:devices=>:capabilities}) The above manufacturer find works the first time and is also a ''root'' manufacturer which all others can extend (this is how the project was given to me, I know..). This being the case, I chose to ''cache'' the root manufacturer and to do that I put it in my ApplicationController class and set up a before_filter which checks for a $root_manufacturer global. If $root_manufacturer isn''t found, then it''s loaded. Like I said, this all works the first time. But if I try to use $root_manufacturer.devices, I get the following error in my view: ActionView::TemplateError undefined method `devices'' for #<Manufacturer:0x35fc6e4> Specifically this line: <%root_manufacturer.devices.each_with_index do |device,index|%> When I first loaded the manufacturer into $root_manufacturer global and checked the length of its devices, it worked. But when I go to the page, it doesn''t. It seems like not very many people use eager loading - that I''ve found - so there''s not much out there on this issue. I''m trying to figure out if maybe for some reason, the devices attribute is falling off when I try to globalize the manufacturer_root object. It''s strange too because on the view in the line before the error I have this: <% logger.debug "#{$root_manufacturer.inspect}"%> and I can clearly see that <Manufacturer:0x35fc6e4 @devices=[#<Device:0x35fc25c ....] ...> exists. So I can''t figure out what''s going on. Any suggestions appreciated. TIA. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk-unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---