What is inside my ruby array?

Question

So I have an Array filled of what exactly?

myArray = [ #<Follower id: 1, username: "Prep Bootstrap", imageurl: "http://pbs.twimg.com//profile_images/2825468445/2a4...", user_id: "thefonso", follower_id: "2397558816", created_at: "2014-05-21 15:29:03", updated_at: "2014-05-21 15:29:03">, #<Follower id: 2, username: "JAVA Developer", imageurl: "http://pbs.twimg.com//profile_images/2825468445/2a4...", user_id: "thefonso", follower_id: "2352382640", created_at: "2014-05-21 15:29:05", updated_at: "2014-05-21 15:29:05">,

Follower id: 3, username: "JAVA Developer two", imageurl: "http://pbs.twimg.com//profile_images/2825468445/2a4...", user_id: "thefonso", follower_id: "2352382641", created_at: "2014-05-21 17:29:05", updated_at: "2014-05-21 17:29:05"> ]

Now I have many more of these inside this array with consecutive ids, etc..I'm confused by the #< >, is this an array of hashes? What am I looking at exactly? What is this an array of?

Answer 1

It looks like ActiveRecord's Followers class instances. Plus, it looks like you named your model improperly (with Rails practices, it should be named Follower).

Answer 2

Get the class of one of the objects and you'll know it

puts myArray[0].class