From: Michael Neumann <mneumann@...>
Date: 2004-05-26T02:16:27+09:00
Subject: [RCR] Enumerable#group_by

Hi,

I propose the addition of Enumerable#group_by which is a generalization
of Enumerable#partition.

  module Enumerable
    def group_by(store=Hash.new)
      self.each do |elem|
        group = yield elem
        (store[group] ||= []) << elem
      end
      store
    end
  end

For example:

  %w(This is a list of words).group_by {|word| word.size}

would result in:

  {5=>["words"], 1=>["a"], 2=>["is", "of"], 4=>["This", "list"]}

Is this useful enough to include into Ruby?

Regards,

  Michael