On Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Juan manuel V. <[email protected]> wrote:

> @elements = Post.find(:all)
> @elements.each do |el|
>  if el.name=="test"
>    # remove el from @elements
>  end
> end

First, it would be more readable for you or another maintainer
down the road to write this as

@posts = Post.all
@posts.each do |post|

> 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.

@posts is an Array; look at the rdoc for methods available.

And finally, you could replace the .each loop with one line:

@posts.delete( Post.find_by_name("test") )

HTH!
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Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ [email protected]
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