From: Nate Leavitt <nateleavitt@...>
Date: 2008-07-15T07:43:26+09:00
Subject: Re: array of hashes (finding value)

Martin DeMello wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 2:37 PM, Nate Leavitt <nateleavitt@gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> @invoices.each do |invoice|
>>>>  if invoice[:id] == params[:contact_id]
>>>>    bla... bla...
>>>>  end
>>
>> Thanks for the reply.  Yes, I am working in rails :)  It just seems
>> kinda tedious to keep iterating over all these collections.  Just
>> wondering if there is a more efficient way.
> 
> Where did @invoices come from in the first place? If it came from the
> database, you are probably doing things in your loop that you should
> be doing in the sql query (e.g. Invoice.find(params[:contact_id])
> rather than your if guard in the loop)
> 
> martin

Yeah... sorry.  I actually get the collection through an xml-rpc call :) 
which returns the array of hashes.
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