Is it possible to parse an array of objects to select them by attribute? I have a situation where I need to display all objects of a model grouped by an attribute on the index page. What I had been doing in my controller is this...
#xx_controller.rb
#group1 = City.where(:population => 'big')
#group2 = City.where(:population => 'medium')
#group3 = City.where(:population => 'small')
But I'd prefer to do something like this in the controller...
#cities = City.all
And in my view something along the lines of a query, rather than prepackaged instance variables -
#cities.where....
Any thoughts?
If you don't mind loading everything at once from the database, you can do:
#cities = City.all.group_by(&:population)
Which returns a hash whose keys are the possible values for the population attribute.
Then, on your view, you can access the cities on each 'group' by doing #cities['small'], #cities['medium'] and so on.
Do you mean something like this?
#cities = City.all
small_cities = #cities.select { |city| city.population == 'small' }
medium_cities = #cities.select { |city| city.population == 'medium' }
big_cities = #cities.select { | city| city.population == 'big' }
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I have a Convo table and a GroupMeeting table that both are associated with a Msg table.
I want to find all the instances where the current_user has convos or group_meetings with msgs, combine the two, and then show both together to the user in order of the last msg.created_at
Here I have defined both:
#convos = Convo.includes(:msgs).where("sender_id = ? OR recipient_id = ?", current_user, current_user).where.not(:msgs => { :id => nil }).merge(Msg.order(created_at: :desc))
#group_meetings = current_user.group_meetings.includes(:msgs).where.not(:msgs => { :id => nil }).merge(Msg.order(created_at: :desc))
And then combined them together:
#convos = #convos + #group_meetings
What I can't figure out is how to now sort them by msg.created_at
I have tried the following:
#convos = (#convos + #group_meetings).sort_by(&:"#{msg.created_at}")
#convos.order('msg.created_at DESC')
These all seem to be server-side sorting though. How can I sort these based off the join table, after the array has been created?
Please let me know if I need to supply any other details. Thank you!!
You can try the following:
(#convos + #group_meetings).sort_by { |item| item.msgs.minimum(:created_at) }
I have a collection/array in rails, transformed to json it looks like this:
#collection = [{"order_number":"123","item":"Paper"},{"order_number":"567","item":"Ruler"},{"order_number":"344","item":"Pen"},{"order_number":"342","item":"Pencil"},{"order_number":"877","item":"Keyboard"}]
I would like to pick the item with the order_number "342" and put it at the last position of the collection, so the new collection looks like this:
#collection = [{"order_number":"123","item":"Paper"},{"order_number":"567","item":"Ruler"},{"order_number":"344","item":"Pen"},{"order_number":"877","item":"Keyboard"},{"order_number":"342","item":"Pencil"}]
In theory, it would look like this:
#collection.last = #collection[3]
but that is obviously not fancy ruby style nor would it re-sort the array as in my example.
Also I don't know the index of the item as it can change depending on what the user shops.
how about:
#collection << #collection.delete_at[#collection.index{|x| x[:order_number] == "342"}]
This basically searches the index of element with :order_number 342 first, uses that index to delete it, and then store the deleted element at the end again.
You can also use the partition method:
#collection = #collection.partition { |h| h['order_number'] != '342' }.flatten
Just split your collection on two (without 342 order and with 342 order), then just join them. It should looks like:
#collection = #collection.select {|e| e[:order_number] != '342' } + #collection.select {|e| e[:order_number] == '342' }
If you have an index of an item it boils down to
#collection << #collection.delete_at(3)
If you don't, you could try finding it using
#collection.find_index{ |el| el["order_number"] == "123" }
Alternative you can try this too:
> #collection.each_with_index{ |key,value| #collection.push(#collection.delete_at(value)) if key[:order_number] == "344" }
#=>[{:order_number=>"123", :item=>"Paper"}, {:order_number=>"567", :item=>"Ruler"}, {:order_number=>"342", :item=>"Pencil"}, {:order_number=>"877", :item=>"Keyboard"}, {:order_number=>"344", :item=>"Pen"}]
I'm trying to retrieve multiple values from a database into a single variable and return the whole thing. Here is what I am doing
my_hash = {
'name' => 'John'
'current_location' => 'Sweden'
}
Now I need to go into database and retrieve all records and store them into a single variable, and then i need to add that variable into my_hash so I can return the whole thing. How would I do that?
Example:
last_names = Names.where('first_name = ?', 'John').select('last_name').last_name
my_hash.add(last_names)
return my_hash
Now that above does not works, can somebody tell me proper way to achieve this?
are you trying to do the following?
my_hash = {
'name' => 'John'
'current_location' => 'Sweden'
}
my_hash['last_names'] = Names.where('first_name = ?', 'John')
.select('last_name')
.map { |name| name.last_name }
# or shorthand version .map(&:last_name)
return my_hash
Updated
# get name objects from the database
# add select as an optimization if desired
last_name_list = Names.where('first_name = ?', 'John')
# get an array of only the last_name fields
last_names = last_name_list.map { |name| name.last_name }
# assign the array to the new hash key 'last_names'
my_hash['last_names'] = last_names
see http://www.ruby-doc.org/core-1.9.3/Array.html#method-i-map for documentation on map, note that map and collect are the same
another example
names = Names.where('updated_at >= ?', Date.parse('2013-01-01'))
# get an array of 'full names'
full_names = names.map do |name|
"#{name.first_name} #{name.last_name}"
end
I have a table called audits which has a column 'changes' storing data in the form of hash
I would like to retrieve all entries with the following conditions:
- auditable_type = 'Expression'
- action = 'destroy'
- changes = { :EXP_SUBMISSION_FK =>'9999992642'}
I first tried the following code which returns me with nothing:
#deleted_history = Audit.find(:all, :conditions => ["auditable_type =? AND action = ? AND changes = ?",'Expression', 'destroy' , { :EXP_SUBMISSION_FK =>'9999992642'} ])
I then tried the following code which retrieves all entries in the 'audits' table with auditable_type = 'Expression' and action = 'destroy'.
I then loop through the resultset and discards all entries where EXP_SUBMISSION_FK is not equal to 9999992642. The code below returns me 5 entries/records
#deleted_history = Audit.find(:all, :conditions => ["auditable_type =? AND action = ?",'Expression', 'destroy' ])
#deleted_history.each do |test|
if test.changes['EXP_SUBMISSION_FK'] != 9999992642
#deleted_history = #deleted_history.reject { test }
end
end
I would like to know where did I go wrong with the first code example and whether there is a way of retrieving all entries with the aforementioned conditions in a much simpler way.
Thanks a lot for your help.
i'd do:
#deleted_history.select!{|hist| hist.changes['EXP_SUBMISSION_FK'] == '9999992642'}
One potential cause of failure is that you're looking for 9999992642 but you state before the value is '9999992642'
You just use something like below. I am storing element_values as a hash and i am selecting records based on the key/value pair.
scope :find_by_field_values, lambda {
|field_name, field_value|
(where("element_values like ?", "%\"#{field_name}\":\"%#{field_value}%"))
}
just try this based on your scenario.
I am using ruby-aaws to return Amazon Products and I want to enter them into my DB. I have created a model Amazonproduct and I have created a method get_amazon_data to return an array with all the product information. When i define the specific element in the array ( e.g. to_a[0] ) and then use ruby-aaws item_attributes method, it returns the name I am searching for and saves it to my DB. I am trying to iterate through the array and still have the item_attributes method work. When i don't define the element, i get this error: undefined method `item_attributes' for #Array:0x7f012cae2d68
Here is the code in my controller.
def create
#arr = Amazonproduct.get_amazon_data( :r ).to_a
#arr.each { |name|
#amazonproduct = Amazonproduct.new(params[:amazonproducts])
#amazonproduct.name = #arr.item_attributes.title.to_s
}
EDIT: Code in my model to see if that helps:
class Amazonproduct < ActiveRecord::Base
def self.get_amazon_data(r)
resp = Amazon::AWS.item_search('GourmetFood', { 'Keywords' => 'Coffee Maker' })
items = resp.item_search_response.items.item
end
end
Thanks for any help/advice.
I'm not familiar with the Amazon API, but I do observe that #arr is an array. Arrays do not usually have methods like item_attributes, so you probably lost track of which object was which somewhere in the coding process. It happens ;)
Try moving that .item_attributes call onto the object that supports that method. Maybe amazonproduct.get_amazon_data(:r), before its being turned into an array with to_a, has that method?
It's not quite clear to me what your classes are doing but to use #each, you can do something like
hash = {}
[['name', 'Macbook'], ['price', 1000]].each do |sub_array|
hash[sub_array[0]] = sub_array[1]
end
which gives you a hash like
{ 'name' => 'Macbook', 'price' => 1000 }
This hash may be easier to work with
#product = Product.new
#product.name = hash[:name]
....
EDIT
Try
def create
#arr = Amazonproduct.get_amazon_data( :r ).to_a
#arr.each do |aws_object|
#amazonproduct = Amazonproduct.new(params[:amazonproducts])
#amazonproduct.name = aws_object.item_attributes.title.to_s
end
end