Instead of doing something like.
@about_blurb = Blurb.find_by_name('about')
@contact_blurb = Blurb.find_by_name('contact')
etc..
I'd love to do
@blurbs = Blurb.find(:all)
@about_blurb = @blurbs.give_me_the_one_where_name_is('about')
Javan
On Apr 11, 2007, at 9:04 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If I'm not misreading your question, you just need to supply a condition to your find: @blurbs_by_john = Blurb.find(:all, :conditions => ["name = ?", "John"]) Or even simpler, use one of the dynamic "find_by..." shortcuts: @blurbs_by_john = Blurb.find_all_by_name("John") You could also find on a result collection using ruby itself, but I just got bit recently when trying to use, I think, the array#find method. It turns out that rails has redefined that one to be more like the find() we're all used to (personally I would prefer that something fundamental like that had been left alone, but I haven't done enough rails yet to know whether I'm just not getting something.) If you need more details on finding within a collection, I'll have to dig through my code. I've had to do a bit of that lately, crafting the yield block a bit to get things right, but I can't remember what I did off the top of my head. Hopefully one of the simpler finds with conditions is what you needed. -glenn Javan Makhmali wrote:I have a page with several blurbs of text that appear in various places like the footer and sidebar. I'd like to be able to query all of the blurbs at once ( @blurbs = Blurb.find :all ) and then pick from that collection and display in the view. Each blurb has a permanent non-changing name attribute, but I'm not sure how to grab just that one blurb from @blurbs using this attribute.Javan--------------------------------------------------------------------- ---_______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby_______________________________________________ Sdruby mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sdruby.com/mailman/listinfo/sdruby
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