I have two complex rails (AR) queries coming from two different methods that I sometimes want to concatenate. The data structure returned in each object is the same I just want to append one onto another.
Here's a simplified example (not my actual code):
@peep1 = Person.find(1)
@peep2 = Person.find(2)
Thought something like this would work:
@peeps = @peep1 << @peep2
or this
@peeps = @peep1 + @peep2
The above is just a simplified example - joining the queries etc won't work in my case.
Edit: Maybe concatenating is the wrong term.
Here's the output I'd like:
Say @peep1 has:
first_name: Bob
last_name: Smith
and @peep2 has:
first_name: Joe
last_name: Johnson
I want these to be combined into a third object. So if I iterate through @peeps it will contain the data from both previous objects:
@peeps has:
first_name: Bob
last_name: Smith
first_name: Joe
last_name: Johnson
Thanks!