From: "ako..." Date: 2005-11-23T07:32:30+09:00 Subject: Re: what is the ruby way to do this? yes, this is the point of hashes. in my program, i have attributes with names (keys). i want to collect these attributes in to a data structure. attributes with the same names form an array. like in a HTTP POST form, if you have fields with the same names they are treated as an array.