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Rails 6 new ActiveRecord method pick

Rails 6 will be released with a new convenient method on ActiveRecord pick. This method picks the first result value(s) from a ActiveRecord relation.

Person.all.pick(:name)
# SELECT people.name FROM people LIMIT 1
# => 'John'

Person.all.pick(:name, :email)
# SELECT people.name, people.email FROM people LIMIT 1
# => ['John', 'john@mail.com']

So pick(:name) is basically equivalent to limit(1).pluck(:name).first.

Watch out for rails inconsistencies as pick(:name) returns a single string value and pick(:name, :email) returns an array of values.

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