From: "Simon Kröger" <SimonKroeger@...>
Date: 2005-12-24T09:01:59+09:00
Subject: Re: How to sort this hash?

x1 wrote:
> Is it possible to sort the jobs hash below based on values such as
> command, start_time and stop_time?
> 
> Ideally, sort_by would be dynamically provided and I would output the
> jobs entries based on the value defined for sort_by.

This should do:

jobs.sort{|a,b|a[1][sort_by] <=> b[1][sort_by]}.each do |k, attributes|
   puts "------------------"
   puts attributes["command"]
   puts attributes["start_time"]
   puts attributes["stop_time"]
end

cheers

Simon