belong_to not working ruby and rails

Question

I have created two tables in my db. The first table is users, with columns:

id, name

The second table is microposts, with columns:

id, content, user_id

This is my Micropost model

class Micropost < ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
    validates :content, length: { maximum:20 }
end

and this is the index method in my MicropostController

def index
    @microposts = Micropost.all
end

when I check in index view like this

<%= debug @microposts %>

I get this result

---
- !ruby/object:Micropost
  attributes:
    id: 1
    content: new micropost
    user_id: 1
    created_at: 2014-04-12 10:56:04.000000000 Z
    updated_at: 2014-04-12 10:56:04.000000000 Z

I am not getting user table data with relation. How can i do this?

This is the User model:

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
    has_many :micropost
end

Answer 1

If you want to get the user who has the micropost, you should use micropost.user. For example: @microposts.first.user will return the user of @microposts's first record.