Question

I have a users object that I’m exposing through the simple call:

@users = User.all

I also have some more expensive queries I’m doing where I’m using custom SQL to generate the results.

@comment_counts = User.received_comment_counts

This call and others like it will return objects with one element per user in my list ordered by id.

In my view I’d like to loop through the users and the comment_counts object at the same time. Eg:

for user, comment_count in @users, @comment_counts do
end

I can’t figure out how to do this. I also can’t seem to figure out how to get an individual record from the @comment_counts result without running it through @comment_counts.each

Isn’t there some way to build an iterator for each of these lits objects, dump them into a while loop and step the iterator individually on each pass of the loop? Also, if you can answer this where can I go to learn about stepping through lists in rails.

Answer 1

Something like this should work for you:

@users.zip(@comment_counts).each do |user, comments_count|
  # Do something
end

I’ve never come across manual manipulation of iterators in Ruby, not to say that it can’t be done. Code like that would likely be messy and so I would likely favor more elegant solutions.