Ruby-on-Rails: Selecting distinct values from the model

Question

The docs: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_record_querying.html#selecting-specific-fields

Clearly state that:

query = Client.select(:name).distin         


        

Answer 1

If you do not want ActiveRecord::Relations returned, just an array of the names as strings, then use:

Client.distinct.pluck(:name)

To get an ordered result set:

Client.order(:name).distinct.pluck(:name)