Given a Model, how to loop through all properties?

Question

I want to loop through all the properties of my 'user' model, how can I do this?

Answer 1

If you have an instance of your model then user.attributes is a Hash of the model's attributes and their values so, for example, you can do something like:

user.attributes.each_pair do |name, value|   puts "#{name} = #{value}" end 

If you don't have a specific instance then the class has methods that return information about the fields in the database e.g. User.columns and User.content_columns. e.g.

User.columns.each do |column|   puts column.name end