Uniq by object attribute in Ruby

YourModel.find(:all, :group => "status")

uniq_array = my_array.uniq_by {|obj| obj.id}

class Array
  def uniq_by(&blk)
    transforms = []
    self.select do |el|
      should_keep = !transforms.include?(t=blk[el])
      transforms << t
      should_keep
    end
  end
end

class Array
  def uniq_by(&blk)
    transforms = {}
    select do |el|
      t = blk[el]
      should_keep = !transforms[t]
      transforms[t] = true
      should_keep
    end
  end
end

class Foo
  attr_accessor :foo, :bar, :baz

  def initialize(foo,bar,baz)
    @foo = foo
    @bar = bar
    @baz = baz
  end
end

objs = [Foo.new(1,2,3),Foo.new(1,2,3),Foo.new(2,3,4)]

# find objects that are uniq with respect to attributes
objs.inject([]) do |uniqs,obj|
  if uniqs.all? { |e| Marshal.dump(e) != Marshal.dump(obj) }
    uniqs << obj
  end
  uniqs
end

Hash[*recs.map{|ar| [ar[attr],ar]}.flatten].values

objs.inject({}) {|h,e| h[e.attr]=e; h}.values

h = {}
objs.each {|e| h[e.attr]=e}
h.values

class A
  attr_accessor :val
  def initialize(v); self.val = v; end
end

objs = [1,2,6,3,7,7,8,2,8].map{|i| A.new(i)}

objs.sort_by{|a| a.val}.inject([]) do |uniqs, a|
  uniqs << a if uniqs.empty? || a.val != uniqs.last.val
  uniqs
end