How to store contents of table in Hash?

Hi evrybody…

I was storing the values in hash using…

places = [
{:address=>‘555 Irving, San Francisco,
CA’,:description=>‘Irving’,:image=>’/images/1.jpg’},
{:address=>‘1401 Valencia St, San Francisco,
CA’,:description=>‘Valencia’,:image=>’/images/2.jpg’},
]

But now I want to take these values from database…I created ,
migrated table correctly…

N now using the statement
@companies = Company.find(:all)

But now i dont understand how can i store these fetched values in hash-

‘places’

I dont want static values…

So can anybody please help me for it…
Thanks…

Vrishali… wrote:

N now using the statement
@companies = Company.find(:all)

But now i dont understand how can i store these fetched values in hash-

‘places’

I dont want static values…

I’m not quite sure why you need to store the values from the
ActiveRecords in a hash, but basically ActiveRecord uses a hash, or
something like a hash, internally and it’s easy to get to that using the
attributes method:

places = []
@companies.each do |company|
places << company.attributes
end

This will build an array of hashes just like what you had with the
static values. But, like I said I don’t know why you would need to do
this. You could just use the ActiveRecords directly. And if you wanted a
serialized version of them for some reason then JSON is a good format
for that:

@companies.to_json

Thanks for the help…

actually i am using places hash evrywhere…so i dnt want
modifications throughout the code…n files…so…i want to put the
all retrieved records to be placed in that…places.
n i want it at the start of controller call…

thats y…

ok i tried ur statments given…but still it is giving error…

TypeError in GmapController#index

can’t convert nil into String

RAILS_ROOT: /home/ubuntu/gmaptry
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:57:in +' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:57:inget_geocode’
app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:30:in index' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:ineach’
app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:in each_with_index' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:inindex’

so what should i do…please help…

also i am using evrywhere…
place[:address]
place[:description]…

so how can i specify that…

please help me…

thanks…

Thanks for the help…

actually i am using places hash evrywhere…so i dnt want
modifications throughout the code…n files…so…i want to put the
all retrieved records to be placed in that…places.
n i want it at the start of controller call…

thats y…

ok i tried ur statments given…but still it is giving error…

TypeError in GmapController#index

can’t convert nil into String

RAILS_ROOT: /home/ubuntu/gmaptry
Application Trace | Framework Trace | Full Trace

app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:57:in +' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:57:inget_geocode’
app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:30:in index' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:ineach’
app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:in each_with_index' app/controllers/gmap_controller.rb:28:inindex’

so what should i do…please help…

also i am using evrywhere…
place[:address]
place[:description]…

so how can i specify that…

please help me…

thanks…

ok…

I got the solution by myself

now i am using the code…

@companies.each do |company|
places [ {:address => company.addr, :description =>
company.cname , :image => company.img}]
end

it is working without ant error…

but now the problem is that …

the values are getting overwritted in places array…and only last
record is saved…

so what can i do for increamenting places index…

or anybody knows any another method…

please help me…