Merging multiple AR result hashes into one for view loop

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Need some opinions about the best way to go about this. I know :include does something similar, though I'm not sure if thats what I need.

I have a Users model which :has_many of several other models, we'll call them model1, model2, model3 for example.

As of right now I have something like this in my controller:

@result1 = User.model1 @result2 = User.model2 @result3 = User.model3

Now the various models that belong to User have various different columns/attributes in them, but they do share a common attribute of a time column.

For use in one of my view I want to, for example, combine @result1, @result2 and @result3 in one main @results hash and order them all by time. Then in my view I can do one simple loop such as:

for result in @results    result.attribute_from_model1    result.attribute_from_model2_that_isnt_in_model1    ... end

I suppose there is a way to do this with either a Ruby (zip?) hash merging method or a single AR call/join. Any thoughts? Thanks.

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Also I was thinking maybe a combo of :include and :join might work? I can't seem to get the syntax right.

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Bryan,

Ah ok, arrays make them much easier to deal with. Thanks I'll give this a try.