to_ary()
Instance Public methods
Returns a new array of objects from the collection. If the collection hasn't been loaded, it fetches the records from the database.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 | class Person < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :petsendperson.pets# => [# #<Pet id: 4, name: "Benny", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 5, name: "Brain", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 6, name: "Boss", person_id: 1># ]other_pets = person.pets.to_ary# => [# #<Pet id: 4, name: "Benny", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 5, name: "Brain", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 6, name: "Boss", person_id: 1># ]other_pets.replace([Pet.new(name: 'BooGoo')])other_pets# => [#<Pet id: nil, name: "BooGoo", person_id: 1>]person.pets# This is not affected by replace# => [# #<Pet id: 4, name: "Benny", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 5, name: "Brain", person_id: 1>,# #<Pet id: 6, name: "Boss", person_id: 1># ] |
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