From: JB Eriksson <mrkode@...>
Date: 2005-11-23T07:22:57+09:00
Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this?

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On 11/22/05, ako... <akonsu@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> hello,
>
> i am still learning. in the below code @attributes is a hash table. i
> want to add a new value 'a' for a key represented by 'a.key'. i also
> want to group values with the same keys in to arrays. thanks for any
> help.
>
> konstantin
>
> if @attributes.has_key?(a.key)
> if @attributes[a.key].is_a?(Array)
> @attributes[a.key] << a
> else
> @attributes[a.key] =3D [@attributes[a.key], a]
> end
> else
> @attributes[a.key] =3D a
> end
>
>
>
Pardon my question, but isn't the whole point of hashes that every key is
unique?

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