Question

I am new to rails and ruby.

I have a has_many association between user and store

below is what I do:

@user = User.find_by_userid_and_password("someuser", "12345")
=> #<User id: 1, userid: "someuser", password: "12345", 
created_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00", updated_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00"> 
@user.stores
=> [#<Store id: 3, store_id: 3, store_name: "New Store 2", 
created_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00", updated_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00">, 
 #<Store id: 5, store_id: 5, store_name: "Store 14th and M", 
 created_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00", updated_at: "2010-01-25 00:00:00">]

so basically i am first authenticating the user and then getting all the stores that a user belongs to. For that I get a list back. In that list of hashes i want to find out if anything is there with store_id == 4.

sequentially I do:

@user.stores.first.store_id==4
false
@user.stores.second.store_id==4
false

how can i make this in a loop? and is there any better way to do this.

Answer 1

Welcome to Rails,

Your best approach here is probably not to use a loop, but to chain a find to your first finder.

For example:

@user.stores.find(store_id)

This will leverage the db and be much faster.

Check out the API

If you do want to loop you do something like the following

@user.stores.each do |store|
  @my_store = store if store.id == store_id
end

or

@my_store = @user.stores.select{|s| s.id == store_id}

or

@contains_store = @user.stores.include?{|s| s.id == store_id}

Good luck,