On 18 January 2011 16:47, James Byrne <li...@ruby-forum.com> wrote: > Colin Law wrote in post #975760: > >> I am interested to know why, when you do not care what the rest of the >> row contains. >> > > I have answered that question. I just want to quickly obtain one > representative row from each category. I can get the same result by > iterating over an array of possible values and doing a > find_by_category(x).first on each. I would prefer a less cumbersome > approach. > > Do you know how to accomplish what I desire? If so then I would > appreciate it if you would tell me.
No I do not. I was hoping that if I understood in detail why you want this that I could suggest an alternative approach. I still do not understand why you might want one representative row from each category when you do not care what the rest of the row contains. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
