From: Mike Harris <GENIE@...>
Date: 2006-06-27T01:13:49+09:00
Subject: Re: Some ugly code (again)

arnaud stageman wrote:

>Hello!
>
>I have (again) some ruby code to beautifulize :-)
>
>I have 2 Range {1..x} and {1..y} and a name
>My goal is to have formatted names like : name + y + x
>
>For example:
>rack11 rack12 rack13
>rack21 rack22 rack23
>
>Can I do nicer than:
>
>{1..y}.each do |y|
>	{1..x}.each do |x|
>		the_name = name + y.to_s + x.to_s
>	end
>end
>
>???
>
>
>Arnaud.
>
>  
>
The cartesian_product method doesn't exist, you would have to write it.  
It's trivial

(1..y).cartesian_product((1..x)).map { |x| name + x.join("") }