From: Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@...>
Date: 2006-01-12T04:41:03+09:00
Subject: Re: Stupid question from a Ruby newb

On 1/10/06, Will <wrbriggs@gmail.com> wrote:
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> @myHash = objects.map do |object| [ object.key => object.value ] end

You were on the right track with this one:

@myHash = Hash[*objects.map{|o| [o.key, o.value]}.flatten]

So we map the objects into array pairs of the key and value, flatten
the resulting array, and then use the "splat" operator (*) to turn
those into parameters to the Hash::[] method.

Ryan