Ruby on Rails

Walter, Stewart.... Many thanks to you.  Definitely making so much progress here.

All seems to be going really well, but I remain stumped at a critical point

Given the model, I pass from the controller @parent = Parent.object

All of the field_for aspects are working really beautifully.  But in the view I need to test for a parent/child value. I know that this code is wrong:

<% unless @lenders.state_id_string.blank? %>   ## @lenders is the parent model, and only the fields within that model are being returned.  I thought that if I define all parent associations in the AR, then the object @lenders would be aware.. 
                                                                        ## I need to learn whether the parent with address value has state_id_string blank?
                                                                        ## I'm stuck.  How do I do this?
    <% display_state_id_string = 'inline' %>
    <% else %>
    <% display_state_id_string = 'none' %>
    <% end %>


Thanks,

Liz


On Friday, May 22, 2015 at 8:36:11 AM UTC-4, Elizabeth McGurty wrote:

THANKS!  Sorry I responded to Walter before I read this