I think it's been around since Rails 2.1 Project.first Project.last Project.all
all work. On Dec 25, 11:12 pm, "James Englert" <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe this is a bit off topic... I never knew you could use syntax like > Project.all. When was this added to the language/framework? > > On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 9:28 PM, Gabriel Laskar <[email protected]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 3:00 AM, Zhao Yi > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I have a table named "Projects" which has a column "name". I want to get > > > a string array to represent all the name values. In the controller, I > > > can use this code "@projects = Project.find(:all)" to get all the > > > projects but how to convert it to the string array? > > > Maybe a map will do the trick > > > @project_names = Project.all.map { |p| p.name } > > > -- > > Gabriel Laskar <[email protected]> --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

