Ruby on Rails change array display order

Question

I'm trying to find a way to display an array in a Rails view as follows:

 [  1  ] [  4  ] [  7  ] [  10  ]
 [  2  ] [  5  ] [  8  ] [  11  ]
 [  3  ] [  6  ] [  9  ] [  12  ]

In my controller, I have an array defined as

 def index
 @myArr = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12]
 end

Since this display order is not typical for a table, I am unsure how to proceed to accomplishing this.

I would like to know the following:

Thanks in advance for your help!

sawa · Accepted Answer · 2013-06-24 05:32:57Z

3

If you want to do it in Ruby, then:

[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12].each_slice(3).to_a.transpose.flatten
# => [1, 4, 7, 10, 2, 5, 8, 11, 3, 6, 9, 12]

But I wouldn't do it this way. I would use CSS3 flexbox properties to do it.

answered Jun 24, 2013 at 5:27

sawa

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Sawa, can you expand on how you would do this with CSS3 properties? Thanks in advance. I appreciate it