Phil

On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 6:47 PM, Juan manuel V. <[email protected]>wrote:

> Hi, im new to Ruby on Rails and im trying to do the following
>
> i = 1
> @elements = Post.find(:all)
> @elements.each do |el|
>  if el.name=="test"
>    # remove el from @elements
>  end
> end
>
>
> How can i achieve this? i was trying to do
> el.delete but that is going to delete the element from the database
> and i just want the element to be removed from current listing. im
> implementing a search functionality and i want to filter the results
> from Post.find(:all). In the real app i cant do it by sql.
>

There's more than one way. The first one that comes to mind is just the
difference of 2 arrays:
@elements = @elements - [el]
#@elements will now equal itself, minus the element that matched 'test'



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