Rails way to strip empty child objects from array?

Rails
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Hi,
I have a object with children. some of these children are empty…so
when i paginate them, i get blanks. is there a way to strip out the
empty children? these are my debug. thanks.

  • !ruby/object:Scategory
    attributes:
    name: bbq
    id: “2”
    mcategory_id: “2”
    howtos: []

  • !ruby/object:Scategory
    attributes:
    name: baking
    id: “3”
    mcategory_id: “2”
    howtos:

    • !ruby/object:Howto
      attributes:
      scategory_id: “3”
      title: Carrot cake so good.
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it seems basically i need to run a compact on the children, but how to
use compact on children?

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poipu wrote:

I have a object with children. some of these children are empty…so
when i paginate them, i get blanks. is there a way to strip out the
empty children? these are my debug. thanks.

I have been having so much fun with Array#reject recently…

:wink:

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poipu wrote:

it seems basically i need to run a compact on the children, but how to
use compact on children?

Put them into an Array?

If they are in a Model, such as a product of has_many, they likely are
already in an Array.

Post some Ruby code (not YAML!).

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poipu wrote:

@scats = Scategory.find(:all, :conditions => [“mcategory_id = ?”,
params[:id]], :include => :howtos)

howtos are the children…scategory has many howtos…

now scats is an array where the content is an array of howtos contents?

p scats.first
p scats.first.howtos
p scats.first.howtos.first

Next question: What is an “empty” howto? Can you add a :condition or
similar
to the has_many to exclude them at the database level? Or - even better

not store them?

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yes, it is a model. but im still trying to grasp the concept…

i am calling this…

@scats = Scategory.find(:all, :conditions => [“mcategory_id = ?”,
params[:id]], :include => :howtos)

howtos are the children…scategory has many howtos…

now scats is an array where the content is an array of howtos contents?