From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T13:17:03+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Unified type conversion framework

> Florian Gross wrote:
>> Paul Brannan wrote:
>>
>>> I think you mean Hash[*anArray].  IMO, It's not totally unintuitive,
>>> but it's not consistent with other conversions.
>>
>>
>> Actually converting an assoc array to a Hash is done via
>> Hash[*array.flatten]. I think that that is pretty low level. I'd
>> prefer  something like Hash.from_assoc()
>
> At work we have Array#to_h in a library, it's really useful for things
> like:
>
> db.select_all(...).map {|foo,bar| [foo,bar]}.to_h
>
> Sam

This is my approach (very similar) and I love it:

  require 'extensions/all'
  db.select_all(...).build_hash { |foo, bar| [foo,bar] }

Gavin