Thanks Fred!
Does this look right? I'm still getting an error for some reason:
def get_company_branches
my_branches = self.company.branches
my_list = my_branches.branch_name.collect! { |x| x + "," }
return my_list
end
looking for it to output a concatenated string - still erroring out tho. :(
Peter
On Feb 24, 2011, at 1:01 PM, Frederick Cheung wrote:
>
>
> On Feb 24, 5:07 pm, Peter D Bethke <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> Newbie here working with an existing Rails project. I'm trying to create a
>> method that will return a simple string of object values.
>>
>> I have an app that has companies that each are assigned to one or more
>> branches. Then I have a contact who is assigned to a company. I've created
>> an association with belongs_to for both the company and branch, and the
>> branch and company has their own class in AR.
>>
>> So
>>
>> def get_company_branches
>>
>> my_branches = self.company.branches
>> my_list = my_branches.each { |x| puts x.branch_name }
>> return my_list
>> end
>>
>> For some reason this returns an object id (the raw ruby object id I think)
>> not the string i am looking for. Any suggestions?
>>
>
> puts just dumps things to stdout, so you definitely don't want to be
> using that here.
> If you want to create an array based on the value of each object in a
> collection then you should use collect (also available as map). It
> creates a new array containing the result of evaluating the block for
> each object of the original collection.
>
> Fred
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