Rails - Aug 2005 - array to DB??

Can someone help a newbie here. Trying to learn Ruby and rails at the same time
is troublesome.  I tried looking for this in the pick axe and rails books and
could find an answer to my problem.
Can someone help a newbie here?
I have an array called @labelArr that has n number of elements and I want to add
each element of the array to a table called Labels that has two fields (id &
labelName) can someone help me with how I would do this?


thanks,

-bill

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bill-4qJMilvFZdi/7u6bA4Lga2Xnswh1EIUO@public.gmane.org wrote:
| Can someone help a newbie here. Trying to learn Ruby and rails at
the same time is troublesome.  I tried looking for this in the pick
axe and rails books and could find an answer to my problem.
| Can someone help a newbie here?
| I have an array called @labelArr that has n number of elements and
I want to add each element of the array to a table called Labels
that has two fields (id & labelName) can someone help me with how I
would do this?

If I''m reading your question right, then this should do it:

@labelArr.each do |label|
~  Label.new(label).create
end

Assuming, of course, that the Label model is accessible and you do
some proper error handling.

Regs,
Derek

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Derek Wyatt - C++ / Ruby / Unix Programmer
http://derekwyatt.org
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bill-4qJMilvFZdi/7u6bA4Lga2Xnswh1EIUO@public.gmane.org
wrote:
> Can someone help a newbie here. Trying to learn Ruby and rails at the same
time is troublesome.  I tried looking for this in the pick axe and rails books
and could find an answer to my problem.
> Can someone help a newbie here?
> I have an array called @labelArr that has n number of elements and I want
to add each element of the array to a table called Labels that has two fields
(id & labelName) can someone help me with how I would do this?
Labels.create( @labelArr.map { |label_name| { :labelName => label_name } } )

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