Question

I’m getting this array returned from an API in my Rails app:

[#<GoCardless::User created_at=Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:41:35 +0000, email="[e-mail]", first_name="bob", id="03hhsXP5AX", last_name="cat">]

How can I work with it? I’d like to get its ID, for instance, but whilst it looks like an arel relation, its class is an array, and it’s baffling me.

Answer 1

Just get the first element of the array.

res = api.call # => [#<GoCardless::User created_at=Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:41:35 +0000
res.first # => #<GoCardless::User created_at=Wed, 13 Jun 2012 10:41:35 +0000
res.first.id # => "03hhsXP5AX"