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    <p>I'm fairly new to rails, an an intermediate programmer in general, but I'll try to be as clear as I can.</p> <p>I have a database table for Products, which owns a field called category. Category has two possible values, call them Category1 and Category 2. The goal is to retrieve all the Products and display them in HTML organized by Category. I can make this work, but I know there has to be a better way.</p> <p>My method now is to get my Products like so:</p> <pre><code>@category1_products = Product.all(conditions: { category: "Category1" }) @category2_products = Product.all(conditions: { category: "Category2" }) </code></pre> <p>and then output the data something like this:</p> <pre><code>&lt;table&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Category1 Name&lt;/td&gt; &lt;% @category1_products.each do |product| %&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.name %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.description %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.price %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;tr&gt; &lt;td&gt;Category2 Name&lt;/td&gt; &lt;% @category2_products.each do |product| %&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.name %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.description %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;td&gt;&lt;%= product.price %&gt;&lt;/td&gt; &lt;% end %&gt; &lt;/tr&gt; &lt;/table&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would like to accomplish this using a single instance: get all Products at once, group them by Category, and then output them by looping through one Category at a time (including the Category Names). This seems like a pretty elementary concept to me, but I'm having trouble getting my head around it.</p>
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