From: junkone1@... Date: 2006-08-11T21:50:12+09:00 Subject: Need to understand code This is an extract from http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/arrayfields/arrayfields-3.5.0/README that i am trying to understand. relation = pgconn.query sql relation.size #=> 65536 # yikes! do we really want to re-construct a hash for for each tuple when # we already have Arrays? fields = %w(ssn name position) table.each{|tuple| tuple.fields = fields} tuples[34578]['ssn'] #=> 574865032 What does this term mean %w.......