title: Why aren't my feed items showing?
body: <p>I have copied and pasted code from Michael Hartl's tutorial and changed it to fit my needs. My application currently has a follow system where users should be able to navigate to a page where they only see posts from themselves and those who they are following.</p>
  
  <p>My view for myfeed.html.erb is <strong>empty</strong> because I'm not sure what to put in it (or if anything belongs in there at all). Michael Hartl doesn't seem to be adding anything to the home page in his tutorial.</p>
  
  <p>Here is my PagesController:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class PagesController &lt; ApplicationController
    def home
    end
  
    def about
    end
  
    def myfeed
      if signed_in?
        @thing  = current_user.things.build
        @feed_items = current_user.feed.paginate(page: params[:page])
      end
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my Thing model:</p>
  
  <pre><code>class Thing &lt; ActiveRecord::Base
    belongs_to :user
  
    default_scope -&gt; { order('created_at DESC') }
  
    has_attached_file :image, :styles =&gt; { :large =&gt; '500x500&gt;', :medium =&gt; '300x300&gt;', :thumb =&gt; '100x100&gt;' }
  
    validates :image, presence: true
    validates :title, presence: true
  
    # Returns microposts from the users being followed by the given user.
    def self.from_users_followed_by(user)
      followed_user_ids = "SELECT followed_id FROM relationships
                           WHERE follower_id = :user_id"
      where("user_id IN (#{followed_user_ids}) OR user_id = :user_id",
            user_id: user.id)
    end
  end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is my User model's feed method:</p>
  
  <pre><code> def feed
      Thing.from_users_followed_by(self)
   end
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>EDIT</strong></p>
  
  <p>So the problem was, indeed, because my view was empty. </p>
  
  <p>So I figured at the very least, I should be able to put <code>&lt;%= @feed_items %&gt;</code> in my view, right? When I do, I receive this output on my page: <code>#&lt;ActiveRecord::Relation::ActiveRecord_Relation_Thing:0x00000108ad3f50&gt;</code></p>