devroom.io/content/posts/2007/2007-03-27-rails-tip-snippet-create-a-comma-seperate-list.md

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date = "2007-03-27"
title = "Rails Tip Snippet: Create a comma-seperate list"
tags = ["General", "RubyOnRails", "Features", "TipSnippets"]
slug = "rails-tip-snippet-create-a-comma-seperate-list"
description = "Got an array? This is how you get a CSV!"
+++

Do you have the need to create a list of roles a certain user belongs to? Enumerate the users attached to a company? All you want is a simple list with the names seperated by commas.

Users: John, Dick, Harry

With Ruby on Rails this is really easy. You probably have a collection of user objects. All you want is a list of names:

```ruby
@users.collect{|u| u.name}.join(', ')
```

Read more <a href="http://ariejan.net/tags/tipsnippets/">Tip Snippets</a>?