From: Gavin Sinclair <gsinclair@...>
Date: 2004-09-09T13:36:47+09:00
Subject: Re: [RCR] Unified type conversion framework


> Well, as long as we're playing "show me yours and I'll show you mine," I
> use (again, very similar):

I like that game :)

>
> module Enumerable
>     def collect_hash
>         result = {}
>         each { |x| result[x] = yield(x) }
>         result
>         end
>     end
>
> and thus would write (for the initial):
>
>   db.select_all(...).collect_hash { |foo, bar| bar }
>
> -- Markus

You don't see a need for transforming the keys?

  db.select_all(...).build_hash { |foo, bar| [foo.to_i, bar.to_s] }

Gavin