[Rails] ActiveRecord selecting multiple fields

[Tobias Luetke]

def fullname 
     "#{first_name} #{self.last_name}"
end

person = Person.find(1) 
person.fullname


On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 00:32:20 +1100, Bruno Mattarollo <bmatt at mac.com> wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I have a model for a Person and I am trying to get the "first_name" and
> the "last_name" which I have in different columns in a table. Is this
> the most efficient way?
> 
> def self.getFullName(user_id)
>                 find(user_id).first_names + " " + find(user_id).last_name
>         end
> 
> I assume that this makes two queries ... I would like to only make one
> (also for future stuff ... how do I make this more efficient?)
> 
> Thank you in advance,
> 
> /B
> 
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