Ruby rails - select only few columns from the data base

Question

What is the way in rails to structure sql query to only select certain columns from the database, I have some large data fields which I want to avoid loading from continuous

Answer 1

Make use of :select construct. Try this:

@itemlist = Item.select('name, address', conditions: { .... } )

For previous version of Rails:

@itemlist = Item.find(:all,:select => 'name, address', :conditions => { .... } )