Question

I have a query in my Ruby file:

@mastertest = connection.execute("select code_ver, date from mastertest")

It treats @mastertest like a 2-D array because, when I print the rows, I get:

@mastertest.each do |row|
puts row[0] : row[1]
end

This prints all code_ver and date from each row.

I am not able to perform any other operations on it. I cannot sort the array nor can I perform a deep copy of the array. I’m guessing it is some MySQL2 type which Ruby considers. How do I convert this to a normal 2-D array?

Answer 1

The class of @mastertest is Mysql2::Result ; it provides only each and fields methods

Here’s an example for one way to convert the results into a 2-D array:

sql = "select <field1>, <field2> from <table> where <conditions>"
result_array = []

result = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(sql)

index = 0 
result.each do |row|
  result_array[index] = []
  result_array[index] << row[0]
  result_array[index] << row[1]
  ...
  result_array[index] << row[n]
  ...
  index += 1
end