# Iterating between two values captured in a form

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iterating-between-two-values-captured-in-a-form/183519>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [February 16, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iterating-between-two-values-captured-in-a-form/183519 "2010-02-16T02:15:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 2:15am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iterating-between-two-values-captured-in-a-form/183519/1 "2010-02-16T02:15:00Z")

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Hey all,

What would be the best way to iterate between two numeric values  
captured in a form?

Something like:  
UserRequest.find(params[:user\_request])  
(attribute1…attribute2).each {|x1,x2| … }

Something like this possible? Thanks.

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**Author:** ![jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@jmaenpaa](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jmaenpaa)\
**Post date:** [February 16, 2010, 3:40am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/iterating-between-two-values-captured-in-a-form/183519/2 "2010-02-16T03:40:00Z")

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John M. wrote:

> Hey all,
> 
> What would be the best way to iterate between two numeric values  
> captured in a form?
> 
> Something like:  
> UserRequest.find(params[:user\_request])  
> (attribute1…attribute2).each {|x1,x2| … }
> 
> Something like this possible? Thanks.

Yes, pretty much as you described. Try it!

## Best,

Marnen Laibow-Koser  
[http://www.marnen.org](http://www.marnen.org)  
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