Q: Is there a clean way to merge ActiveRecord::Relation results?

[cdesch]

I am returning a series of ActiveRecord::Relations from the GeoKit-Rails method in_range. I want to combine each of these so they can returned as one array of objects in a controller action.

code:

 def find_panels_within_radius_of_poi(min_range, max_range, points_of_interest)
    panels = Array.new
    points_of_interest.each do |poi_id|
      poi = PointOfInterest.find(poi_id)
      panels << Panel.in_range(min_range..max_range, :origin => poi.origin)
    end

    panels.each do |panel|
      puts panel
    end
    panels
  end

The current code gives me an array of ActiveRecord::Relations like this :

[#<ActiveRecord::Relation []>, #<ActiveRecord::Relation []>, #<ActiveRecord::Relation [#<Panel id: "00c077c8-047d-4cd7-8c24-5ca96f5bf9fa", geopath_panel_id: nil, plant_unit_id: "1307", structure_id: nil,....

How can I combine these? I know there is a ActiveRecord::Relation Merge method, but it would look very messy to have the first item retrieved then having subsequent items merged into it. Is there a way to do it functionally, like how I might do it with Elixir's Reduce Method.

[hcyildirim]

Hi,

I didn't try with ActiveRecord::Relation object but have you tried flatten method in ruby?

Example usage: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35736060/ruby-array-flatten

[ryankopf]

If you still need to do this, your best bet is to use pluck and pluck the IDs. Model.in_range(min_range..max_range, origin: x).pluck(:id)

And union each array of IDs with | and then at the end perform a query to find all records with those IDs Model.where("ID in (?)", ids)