Question

How can I get unique values from column in the table?
For example, I have this Products table:

ID NAME CATEGORY
1 name1 1st_cat
2 name2 2nd_cat
3 name3 1st_cat

Here I want to get only 2 values – 1st_cat and 2nd_cat:

<%Products.each do |p|%>
<%=p.category%>
<%end%>

Answer 1

Two more ways:

Product.select(:category).map(&:category).uniq # Ruby does the work

Product.uniq.pluck(:category) # DB does the work (superior)

For Rails >= 5.1 use:

Product.distinct.pluck(:category) # DB does the work (superior)

…because Relation#uniq was deprecated.