From: "alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov)" <redmine@...>
Date: 2013-11-14T16:12:07+09:00
Subject: [ruby-core:58331] [ruby-trunk - Feature #9108] Hash sub-selections


Issue #9108 has been updated by alexeymuranov (Alexey Muranov).


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I think, in ((*Rails*)), the proposed method (not the assignment) is called ((<(({Hash#slice}))|URL:http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Hash.html#method-i-slice>)).

I think it is impossible to use (({#[]})) for that method:

  h = {1 => 2}
  h[1] # => {1 => 2}?
       # => [2]?
       # => Set[2]?
       # => 2?
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Feature #9108: Hash sub-selections
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/9108#change-42927

Author: wardrop (Tom Wardrop)
Status: Open
Priority: Normal
Assignee: 
Category: 
Target version: 


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Hi,

I seem to regularly have the requirement to work on a sub-set of key/value pairs within a hash. Ruby doesn't seem to provide a concise means of selecting a sub-set of keys from a hash. To give an example of what I mean, including how I currently achieve this:

    sounds = {dog: 'woof', cat: 'meow', mouse: 'squeak', horse: 'nay', cow: 'moo'}
    domestic_sounds = sounds.select { |k,v| [:dog, :cat].include? k } #=> {dog: 'woof', cat: 'meow'}

I think a more concise and graceful solution to this would be to allow the Hash#[] method to take multiple arguments, returning a sub-hash, e.g.

    domestic_sounds = sounds[:dog, :cat] #=> {dog: 'woof', cat: 'meow'}

I had a requirement in the current project I'm working on to concatenate two values in a hash. If this proposed feature existed, I could of just done this...

    sounds[:dog, :cat].values.join #=> 'woofmeow'

You could do something similar for the setter also...

    sounds[:monkey, :bat] = 'screech'
    sounds #=> {dog: 'woof', cat: 'meow', mouse: 'squeak', horse: 'nay', cow: 'moo', monkey: 'screech', bat: 'screech'}

Concise, convenient and readable. Thoughts?

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