Ruby on Rails

Greetings All,

I hope you all understand what I am writing here.  Lots of views involve displaying date from static 'look up' tables: states, countries, type...

From all of the documentation I have read, the standard code conduct seems @look_up_object = LookUpModel.find .where. conditions => ids match

I pursued that structure, and for long listings, so many calls to database really bothered me.

So I re-wrote the code on look-up for my case static item_conditions, containing only two field: conditions and item_conditions_id:

In the view I now have, following  found parent records:

        <% @icond = Itemconditions.find(:all, :readonly) %>
        <% @ih = Hash.new %>
        <% @ih2 = Hash.new %>
        <% @ih = @icond.to_a.map(&:serializable_hash) %>
        <% for kv in @ih %>
          <% @ih2[kv.fetch("item_conditions_id")]  = kv.fetch("conditions") %>
         <% end %>

And then later for iterative record output I have in the view, ldr as the parent data source

    <label class="item_listing">Condition:&nbsp;<%= @ih2[ldr.item_condition_id.to_s] %></label>

Benchmarked this and vastly faster. Deployed it, no problems/errors.  I have researched Ruby and Ruby on Rails API.  I have not found a simpler, more native approach.  Masters if you are aware of Ruby on Rails way, please let me know.

Thanks,

Liz McGurty