Only having one page (but having it disabled) results in a goofy bug

[abutcher]

Started GET "/" for 127.2.104.1 at 2014-03-10 19:04:47 -0400
Processing by HomeController#index as HTML
Rendered home/index.html.erb within layouts/application (1.8ms)
Completed 500 Internal Server Error in 5ms

ActionView::Template::Error (undefined method `id' for nil:NilClass):
37:
38: <% if !@pages.empty? %>
39:

40: <%= link_to("/pages/#{@first.id}/cycle", {:class => 'btn btn-small btn-success', :id => 'play', :rel => 'tooltip', :title => 'cycle pages'}) do %>
41: <% end %>
42:

43: <% end %>
app/views/home/index.html.erb:40