无法从View Rails 3.2访问关联的模型方法

Question

Situation

• I have two models cables and status
• Cables belongs to status, and status has many cables

• Anywhere that is returning a single record the following code works

   @cable.status.stat #where stat is one of the columns in status 

• However since my index returns All cables, when I try to access them from view by doing the following

   <% @cables.each do |cable| %> <td><%= cable.Cable_Hex %></td> <td><%= cable.status.stat %></td> </tr> <% end %> 

I get an error stating that .stat is not recognized. When I remove .stat and leave it as cable.status then I just see an address.

If I try to access the foreign_id then I can see it without a problem. Clearly then associated methods are not readily available in view.

How do I access associated model methods from a view?

--Edit-- Including both Models as requested

Model for Cables

class Cable < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user, :inverse_of => :cables
    belongs_to :status, :inverse_of => :cables
end

Model for Status

class Status < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :cables, :inverse_of => :statuses  
end

Answer 1

May be wrong sql for association.

SQL -

Cable.where("cables.status_id IS NOT NULL")

To get Status record you can use join

 Status.joins( :cables ).where("cables.status_id IS NOT NULL")

This will return all Status records that have an association with Cables.

Then you can loop through it to get stat for each status.

Answer 2

Cause of the problems were faulty test vectors. They were not initialized properly and the error returned for this was that stat method was not found. This made me think that there was something wrong with passing the method across to view however I have learnt that for this particular problem there are two sides to consider. Information that is currently being used to render the page AND proper associations.