Matt, I appreciate your answer... a good explanation :)
I'll drop it now Abram On Monday, November 5, 2012 12:54:35 PM UTC+13, Matt Jones wrote: > > > > On Sunday, 4 November 2012 03:38:56 UTC-5, Abram wrote: >> >> Jim, Thanks for that. >> >> What I mean is I want small and large black products attached to two >> separate variables, say @blacksmall and @blacklarge.. both separated out >> from @products which initially resulted from the Product.where(:color => >> 'black) query. I know it's a stupid example, but I'm just wanting that >> functionality, and think it would be an improvement in rails to enable >> using active record queries on objects that are arrays of objects as they >> are represented in the table. If rails treats table rows as model objects >> why not treat a collection of model objects in the same way, allowing the >> same dsl for access/limiting what's within the collection. > > > An interesting idea, but by the time you've written enough code to support > things like joins you've basically recreated an RDBMS inside of > ActiveRecord. The alternative would be to support only a subset, but that > seems *worse* than no support at all... > > --Matt Jones > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/hwabGgjPs2IJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
