From: Brian Candler <b.candler@...>
Date: 2008-12-17T06:22:50+09:00
Subject: Re: How to cycle through an instance

Tom Ha wrote:
> I have an instance of an object in my database and need to get out every
> element of it, like this:
> 
> Example: model = student
> ========================
> 
> firstname = Fred
> lastname = Williams
> streetname = NULL
> city = NULL
> date of birth = 12.12.1934
> ...
> (until there is no more column name left for this model)
> 
> How do I correctly/efficiently cycle through this one?

Depends on what ORM you are using.

If it's ActiveRecord, try obj.attributes

(ActiveRecord questions probably best asked on the Rails mailing list 
though)
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