From: ara.t.howard@...
Date: 2006-05-03T23:32:59+09:00
Subject: Re: Problem with SQLite and Ruby

On Wed, 3 May 2006, Peter Hickman wrote:

> The problem for me is that the code I am writing needs to take an array of
> results and convert the results hash for each record into a chunk of XML for
> any set of results it is passed in. Thus it does not know, or even need to
> know, what the keys for the table are. It just wants to iterate over them
> and create some output. It does not take much for me to only process the
> string based keys but it looked to me like I was overlooking something
> obvious.
>
> No big deal, just didn't work quite the way I was expecting.

indeed.  you can do

   fields = tuple.fields

   fields.each do |field|
     append_xml field, tuple[field]
   end

and preserve order.  or just the String keys and use random order.

regards.

-a
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