Is there some sort of short hand for
@notifications = Notification.find(:all, :conditions => ['expires_at > ?', Time.now])
notif = Notification.find(:all, cookie[0].to_i)
@notifications.delete(notif[0]) if not notif.empty?
cookie is an id of a notification stored into cookies. this is in an iteration, that removes notifications that the user doesn't want to see.
thanks! =)
If this is an array of activerecord objects, you could delete from the database like this.
Notification.delete_all(:id => cookie[0].to_i)
If this is just an array, then you can use the delete if
@notifications.delete_if{|x| x == cookie[0].to_i}
Now you could just use the delete_at( index ) method:
array = ['item0', 'item1', 2, 3]
array.delete_at 1
# => "item1"
array.delete_at 2
# => 3
array
# => ["item0", 3]
You could do the same with slice!( index ).
Note: delete_at is a mutator method even if it doesn't end in !, so don't rely on its return value, it will only be the deleted item.
Reference: http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.2.0/Array.html#method-i-delete_at
