How to get all values of an object in ActiveRecord in Rails?

Question

One can use column_names to get all the columns of a table, but what if one would like to know all the values of a particular instance in ActiveRecord.

For example,

User.column_names
=> ["id", "email", "encrypted_password", "reset_password_token", "reset_password_sent_at", "remember_created_at", "sign_in_count", "current_sign_in_at", "last_sign_in_at", "current_sign_in_ip", "last_sign_in_ip", "tel", "interests", "admin_status", "created_at", "updated_at", "city_id", "profile_image_file_name", "profile_image_content_type", "profile_image_file_size", "profile_image_updated_at"]

User.first
=> #<User id: 1, email: "aatir@jpl.com", tel: "+923223333333", interests: "Hi, I'm interested in coding.", admin_status: "download", created_at: "2016-08-16 22:38:05", updated_at: "2016-08-16 22:38:05", city_id: 2, profile_image_file_name: "Screen_Shot_2016-07-02_at_4.41.32_PM.png", profile_image_content_type: "image/png", profile_image_file_size: 324372, profile_image_updated_at: "2016-08-16 22:38:04">

When first method is called, it returns key-value pairs. What I want is to have only values, is there a single method in ActiveRecord that can do this for us?

Answer 1

You can also use attributes method to get it

User.first.attributes.values

1. User.first.attributes will return you hash representation of user object

   User.first.attributes { "id" => 1, "email" => "aatir@jpl.com", "tel" => "+923223333333", "interests" => "Hi, I'm interested in coding.", "admin_status" => "download", "created_at" => "2016-08-16 22:38:05", "updated_at" => "2016-08-16 22:38:05", "city_id" => 2, "profile_image_file_name" => "Screen_Shot_2016-07-02_at_4.41.32_PM.png", "profile_image_content_type" => "image/png", "profile_image_file_size" => 324372, "profile_image_updated_at" => "2016-08-16 22:38:04" }

2. values will return you the values in the Array

   User.first.attributes.values [1, "aatir@jpl.com", "+923223333333", "Hi, I'm interested in coding.", "download", "2016-08-16 22:38:05", "2016-08-16 22:38:05", 2, "Screen_Shot_2016-07-02_at_4.41.32_PM.png", "image/png", 324372, "2016-08-16 22:38:04"]

Answer 2

I'm extending @deepak's answer to assure that the order remains same as it is for column_names , and this is how, I achieved it:

User.first.attributes.values_at *User.column_names

To get just the values, irrespective of the order:

User.first.attributes.values 

Answer 3

只是您可以将 activerecord 转换为 Hash 然后获取如下值：

User.first.as_json.values

Answer 4

Object.first.attributes.values