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**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [December 30, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-columns-for-list-rhtml-to-display-on-one-page/51410 "2005-12-30T23:27:24Z")\
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**Author:**  [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 11:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-columns-for-list-rhtml-to-display-on-one-page/51410/1 "2005-12-30T23:27:24Z")
I’ve gone once through the Agile book and am now attempting my own rails
app. I’ve created a table named ‘volunteers’ with over 15 columns. The
problem is the default list.rhtml that is created with the scaffold,
shows all the columns. I only want to show 4 of them with the list
view.
Where would I start to only return a handfull of columns to the screen?
I think I do it in the view (list.rhtml - excerpted below). Does anyone
have an example that only prints out a subset of the columns in a table?
…
# Listing volunteers
\<% for column in Volunteer.content\_columns %\> \<% end %\> ............
| \<%= column.human\_name %\> |
| --- |
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**Author:**  [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 11:34pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-columns-for-list-rhtml-to-display-on-one-page/51410/2 "2005-12-30T23:34:12Z")
Sean C. wrote:
> …
>
> # Listing volunteers
> \<% for column in Volunteer.content\_columns %\> \<% end %\> ............
>
> You can edit your model and list the columns you want to display
> (anywhere after the class line):
>
> def self.list\_columns
> self.columns\_hash.values\_at(“name”,“phone”,“address”)
> end
>
> (edit name, phone, address to be the columns you want)
>
> Then, tweak your list.rhtml view:
>
> \<% for column in Volunteer.list\_columns %\>
>
>
> \<% end %\>
>
> Hope this helps.
>
> Phil
>
> | \<%= column.human\_name %\> |
> | --- |
> | \<%= column.human\_name %\> |
> | --- |
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**Author:**  [@smc7000](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/smc7000)\
**Post date:** [December 30, 2005, 11:46pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/too-many-columns-for-list-rhtml-to-display-on-one-page/51410/3 "2005-12-30T23:46:16Z")
Sean C. wrote:
> …
>
> # Listing volunteers
> \<% for column in Volunteer.content\_columns %\> \<% end %\> ............
>
> Something like:
>
> \<% my\_content\_columns = %w{foo bar qux}.collect {|colname|
> Volunteer.columns\_hash[colname]} %\>
>
> | \<%= column.human\_name %\> |
> | --- |
>
> \<% for column in my\_content\_columns %\> \<% end %\> \<% for volunteer in @volunteers %\> \<% for column in my\_content\_columns %\> \<% end %\> \<% end %\>
>
> | \<%= column.human\_name %\> |
> | --- |
> | \<%= volunteer.send(column.name) %\> |