From: Kev Jackson <kevin.jackson@...>
Date: 2005-12-02T18:00:30+09:00
Subject: ruby one-liner needed

Here's one taht I know is possible (I'm sure I've seen it somewhere before)

I have 2 arrays and I'd like to change them into a Hash
stuff = ["1", "2", "3"]
Item.column_names.each { |column_name| new_item[column_name] = stuff[?] }

The problem is how to index within the block to move along the stuff 
array, and how to deal with the fact that most of the time the stuff 
array is shorter than the column_names array

I'm sure using collect, map of something else ruby-ish that this is more 
than possible, but I can't find a solution right now

Kev