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-rw-r--r--activesupport/CHANGELOG.md6
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb7
-rw-r--r--activesupport/test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb9
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
index be829222ff..7f1103a6d7 100644
--- a/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activesupport/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,7 +1,9 @@
## Rails 3.2.0 (unreleased) ##
-* Module#synchronize is deprecated with no replacement. Please use `monitor`
- from ruby's standard library.
+* Added Enumerable#pluck to wrap the common pattern of collect(&:method) *DHH*
+
+* Module#synchronize is deprecated with no replacement. Please use `monitor`
+ from ruby's standard library.
* (Date|DateTime|Time)#beginning_of_week accept an optional argument to
be able to set the day at which weeks are assumed to start.
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
index 9343bb7106..d9856f2e84 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/enumerable.rb
@@ -63,6 +63,13 @@ module Enumerable
end
end
+ # Plucks the value of the passed method for each element and returns the result as an array. Example:
+ #
+ # people.pluck(:name) # => [ "David Heinemeier Hansson", "Jamie Heinemeier Hansson" ]
+ def pluck(method)
+ collect { |element| element.send(method) }
+ end
+
# Iterates over a collection, passing the current element *and* the
# +memo+ to the block. Handy for building up hashes or
# reducing collections down to one object. Examples:
diff --git a/activesupport/test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb b/activesupport/test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb
index cdfa991a34..7ce7c4d52d 100644
--- a/activesupport/test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb
+++ b/activesupport/test/core_ext/enumerable_test.rb
@@ -126,4 +126,11 @@ class EnumerableTests < Test::Unit::TestCase
assert_equal true, GenericEnumerable.new([ 1 ]).exclude?(2)
assert_equal false, GenericEnumerable.new([ 1 ]).exclude?(1)
end
-end
+
+ def test_pluck_single_method
+ person = Struct.new(:name)
+ people = [ person.new("David"), person.new("Jamie") ]
+
+ assert_equal [ "David", "Jamie" ], people.pluck(:name)
+ end
+end \ No newline at end of file