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Ruby ActiveRecord Basics Query Interface Advanced Finders

Nikola Novakovic
Nikola Novakovic
4,171 Points
Posted by Nikola Novakovic
Nikola Novakovic
4,171 Points

ActiveRecords Relation Concept

Hey there peeps! :)

I am having a hard time grasping the active records relation. I understand that when you do for example:

@res_show = Customer.where(name: "Bob's Emporium")

It will return an active record relation, but I don't really see what is that relation about and what can I do with it? Is there a method that actually returns an actual customer's data where the name is "name_of_cust" ?

Thanks in advance!

1 Answer

Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
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Maciej Czuchnowski
Maciej Czuchnowski
36,441 Points

This gives you an instance variable called @res_show which contains all the data pertaining to the customer "Bob's Emporium". From now on you can access all the attributes of that client using methods line this (let's assume that the customer has name, address, account number):

@res_show.address, @res_show.name, @res_show.account_number

Nikola Novakovic
Nikola Novakovic
4,171 Points
Nikola Novakovic
Nikola Novakovic
4,171 Points

Thanks a lot so it is actually a huge object :)