comments = story.comments.collect {|comment| comment.body }
assuming that Comment objects respond to a ''body'' method which
contains the meat and potatoes of the comment.
Mike
On 3/8/08, dino d. <dinodorroco-/E1597aS9LQAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:>
>  Hi-
>
>  Simple question, just can''t find a reference.  I have an array of
>  records via a habtm, and simply want to harvest all of the values of
>  one field into an array of strings.  Example:
>
>  story = Story.find(:first)
>  comments = story.comments.XXXX # should equal ["great story",
"i
>  agree", ...]
>
>  I suspect there is a simple built in method.
>
>  Thanks for any help,
>  Dino
>  >
>
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