From: Jamis Buck <jamis@37signals.com>
Date: 2005-10-22T04:38:46+09:00
Subject: Re: array in hash... argh!!

On Oct 21, 2005, at 1:26 PM, Marco wrote:

> hello all.
> i hope someone here can help me out. i really don't understand haw  
> to do this.
> i have a hash like this:

I'm always up for a good game of golf. :)

>
> "movies"=>{
>     "title"=>["ciccio", "test", "ciccio panza"],
>     "id"=>["3", "4", "1"],
>     "description"=>["1", "", "hey?"],
>     "insert_date"=>["2005-10-19", "2005-10-20", "2005-10-18"]
>  }

hashes = []
hash["movies"].keys.each do |key|
   hash["movies"][key].each_with_index do |value, idx|
     hashes[idx] ||= {}
     hashes[idx][key] = value
   end
end
p hashes

Not optimized for brevity, but it works.

- Jamis

>
> and i wold like to get 3 hashes like tese:
>
> first hash:
> "movie"=>{
>     "title"=>"ciccio",
>     "id"=>"3",
>     "description"=>"1",
>     "insert_date"=>"2005-10-19"
>  }
>
> second hash:
> "movie"=>{
>     "title"=>"test",
>     "id"=>"4",
>     "description"=>"",
>     "insert_date"=>"2005-10-19"
>  }
>
> and so on.
>
> is this somehow possible?
> thanks!
>
>