After getting all values from model, I want to add another custom attribute to the ActiveRecord class (this attribute is not a column in db) so that I could use it in view, but
If it's really just temporary it doesn't have to be in the object:
@test.all @test_temp = [] @test.each do |elm| @test_temp << {:elm => elm, :newatt => 'added string'} end
Otherwise, there are also good answers here.