Rails - Apr 2007 - The Ruby Way For Grouping And Sorting An Array

I have an array of Rails ActiveRecord models in which I need to group
by name and then sort by topic.  For instance the initial array may
look like this (hopefully formatting comes out correctly):

Name          Topic
News           Politics
Sports         Soccer
Finance       Stocks
Finance       Bonds
News           World
News           Entertainment

I will need to display the list as follows:

Name           Topic
Finance        Bonds
                   Stocks
News           Entertainment
                   Politics
                   World
Sports          Soccer

As you can see, we only display the name on the first entry of that
name.  Sure, I can simply sort a one-dimensional array of these
objects and place the logic into the presentation such that it checks
if the name it is processing now differs from the last name.  But that
didn''t see so clean.  Is there a better Ruby way in doing this?


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Is your Topic not a proper ActiveRecord model? It seems like you have a 
one-to-many relationship. If you have Topic and, say, SubTopics, you 
should just traverse the Topics first, then their SubTopics. You can 
even get all the data in one query with :include.

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