On Feb 24, 6:12 pm, Peter D Bethke <[email protected]> wrote: > 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
You need to call collect (you don't want collect!) on the array, not on the branch_name for an individual branch Fred > > 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 > > > -- > > 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 > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. -- 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.
