From: Gavin Kistner <gavin.kistner@...>
Date: 2006-10-13T04:55:07+09:00
Subject: Re: Isolating non-unique items in an array

> From: Phrogz [mailto:gavin@refinery.com] 
> class Array
>   def duplicates_count
>     uniq.map{ |e|
>       if ( count = grep(e).size ) > 1
>         { e => count }
>       end
>     }.compact
>   end
> end
> 
> a = ["a", "a", "a", "b", "c", "d", "d"]
> p a.duplicates_count
> #=> [{"a"=>3}, {"d"=>2}]

Don't listen to that Phrogz character, he's insane!

More like:
class Array
  def duplicates_count
    Hash[ *uniq.map{ |e|
      if ( count = grep(e).size ) > 1
        [e, count]
      end
    }.compact.flatten ]
  end
end

a = ["a", "a", "a", "b", "c", "d", "d"]
p a.duplicates_count
#=> {"a"=>3, "d"=>2}


But of course, other posts in this thread are likely faster.