Rails - Jul 2008 - Array#reject vs Array#each + in-block boolean test--I'm baffled--please help!

Hey All,

Can someone explain the difference between these two constructs?
Consider a Projects model, which has_many :tasks--so tasks here is (I
believe) an array.

Construct #1:

  tasks.reject(&:new_record?).each do |task|
    # do some stuff with task
  end

Construct #2:

  tasks.each do |task|
    unless task.new_record?
      # do some stuff with task
    end
  end

I had thought 2 was just a more verbose version of 1, but it seems
that''s not the case.  I grabbed #1 from here:
http://railscasts.com/episodes/75 (the existing_task_attributesmethod).  I used
construct #2 in my app, and found that not every task
was getting processed.  

(Specifically, if the user removed every task on the view and then
saved, all but one would be deleted.)

Reading the one line of documentation for Array#reject, I don''t
understand why these 2 constructs should behave differently.

Many thanks!

-Roy


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