Rails: how can I get unique values from column

Question

How can I get unique values from column in the table? For example, I have this Products table:

ID NAME CATEGORY 1 name1 1st_cat 2 name2 2nd_cat 3 name3 1st_cat 

Here I want to get only 2 values - 1st_cat and 2nd_cat:

<%Products.each do |p|%> <%=p.category%> <%end%> 

Answer 1

Two more ways:

Product.select(:category).map(&:category).uniq # Ruby does the work  Product.uniq.pluck(:category) # DB does the work (superior) 

For Rails >= 5.1 use:

Product.distinct.pluck(:category) # DB does the work (superior) 

...because Relation#uniq was deprecated.