Question

I have an ActiveRecord object:

@user = User.find_by_id(1)

I want to access the name of the user from this object; how do I do it?

@user.name  # Gives Error = No mathod 'name'

Answer 1

If you use User.find instead of User.find_by_id and then perform .name on that, you should receive your output.

@user = User.find(1)
@user.name

But from not seeing your entire DB, it might be you’re simply getting a no method because the field does not exist. In that case you should change the method name accordingly from:

@user.name # to ->
@user.first_name # or whatever the field is actually called