Rails - Mar 2009 - Retrieving all values of the column from the table

Hi,

I have a function in my model like
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class Pattern
  def self.get_all(field)
    @patterns = Pattern.find(:all)
    @patterns.collect do |pp|
      pp.field
    end
  end
end
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so that whatever field i give to the function,
it returns all the column values in an Array

I dont know whether i am doing it right or not
Any suggestions

Thanx,
Vimal Das



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On Mar 5, 9:26 am, vimal
<cool.vimalsm...-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I dont know whether i am doing it right or not
Well, have you tried it ? (look up the send method)

Fred
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I tried it Fred,but it didn''t work

Instead this did the job for me

class Pattern
  def self.get_all(field)
    @patterns = Pattern.find(:all)
    @patterns.collect do |pp|
      pp[field]
    end
  end
end

Regards,
Vimal Das
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