Question: I am getting a bug when I use a text\_area in my rails app. The box takes line breaks, and makes them indentation. Here is a screen shot, any idea where these indentations are coming from?

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Answer: 
As far as I know there's no direct way to get those; but the for-loop is pretty straightforward and obviously won't be more resource-intensive than anything else.
In addition to Utaal's answer, you can possibly populate a new DataTable object with the results of a query that selects only one column from your original data source, assuming it's an RDBMS. This has the advantage of letting you specify things that are easy to express in code but easy to express in SQL like `DISTINCT` queries.