Comparing one array against another in rails
I am using the 'contacts' gem in rails to retrieve a users contacts from their mail application. It returns the contacts like so:
["person name", "personemail@example.com"], ["person name", "personemail@example.com"], ["person name", "personemail@example.com"] etc...
I want to compare this list to the Users already signed up for my site
Users.find(:all) returns:
[#<User id: 11, login: "examplelogin", email: "example@example.com">, #<User id: 12, login: "examplelogin", email: "example@example.com">, etc... ]
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What is the best way to go about comparing the gmail contact emails to the User emails and displaying only the ones that are a match?
I was thinking something like:
@contacts = Contacts::Gmail[params[:from]].new(params[:login], params[:password]).contacts
@contacts.each do |c|
@email = c[1]
@user = Users.find_by_email(@email)
end
Which would presumably only return the users where there was a match. I feel like there must be a better way to go about this that I am not considering. Any suggestions?
@users = Users.find_all_by_email(@contacts.collect{|contact| contact[1]})
edit:
What you had before would perform a find for each contact and leave you only with the result of the last query, either a user or not depending on whether one existed with this email. This performs one query and returns an array of all successful matches:
where 'users'.'email' in array_of_email_addresses.
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