Steve Castaneda wrote:
> Hi everyone! :)
> 
> I'm currently accomplishing what I want, but I'd like to clean it up a
> bit.  I've placed the following items in an array (please excuse my lack
> of proper syntax):
> 
> @widgets =
> 
> [1, red]
> [2, blue]
> [3, red]
> [4, blue]
> 
> I'd like to learn a way to search through the @widgets variable an
> separate the widgets, so that I could have:
> 
> @blue_widgets =
> 
> [2, blue]
> [4, blue]
> 
> @red_widgets =
> 
> [1, red]
> [4, blue]
> 
> ...after performing a query on @widgets.
> 
> I'm accomplishing this now by doing multiple queries to my database, but
> I'm sure there's a way to do it by just doing one query, and then
> separating the data 

Look at Array#partition.

> into different variables in my controller.  Would
> that be the best place to do this?

It might be better in the model.  You shouldn't have much logic in the 
controller.


Best,
--
Marnen Laibow-Koser
http://www.marnen.org
mar...@marnen.org
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