From: Morton Goldberg <m_goldberg@...>
Date: 2006-10-18T13:54:14+09:00
Subject: Re: Displaying Hash Problems


On Oct 17, 2006, at 11:58 PM, Mark Sargent wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> just getting back into learning Ruby and thought I'd play with  
> classes and
> hashes today. Below code produces the following ouput,
>
>
> mark@marklaptop:~/study/ruby$ ruby songs.rb
> Enter your name
> Mark
> Enter song type
> Rock
> Enter song title
> I Was Made For Loving You
> Enter song artist
> Kiss
>
> TitlenewSong.get_song_titleArtistnewSong.get_song_artistTypenewSong.ge 
> t_song_type
>
>
> CODE:
>
> mark@marklaptop:~/study/ruby$ cat songs.rb
> ##define song class
> class Songs
>        def set_song_type(type)
>                @song_type = type
>        end
>
>        def set_song_title(title)
>                @song_title = title
>        end
>
>        def set_song_artist(artist)
>                @song_artist = artist
>        end
>
>        def get_song_title
>                return @song_title
>        end
>
>        def get_song_type
>                return @song_type
>        end
>
>        def get_song_artist
>                return @song_artist
>        end
> end
>
> ##create user name for array name
> puts "Enter your name"
> aName = gets()
>
> ##create new song from class, Songs
> newSong = Songs.new
>
> puts "Enter song type"
> newSong.set_song_type(gets())
>
> puts "Enter song title"
> newSong.set_song_title(gets())
>
> puts "Enter song artist"
> newSong.set_song_artist(gets())
>
> #create new song array
> aName = Hash.new
> aName['Title'] = 'newSong.get_song_title'
> aName['Type'] = 'newSong.get_song_type'
> aName['Artist'] = 'newSong.get_song_artist'
>
> ##display array contant
> puts
> puts(aName)
>
>
> -- 
>
> I'm figuring it has something to do with how I assigned the values  
> to the
> keys, but, cannot for the life of me see what. Any suggestions for  
> me for
> where to look? Cheers.

Also consider:

#create new song array
aName = Hash.new  ### This clobbers the previous value of aName
aName['Title'] = newSong.get_song_title
aName['Type'] = newSong.get_song_type
aName['Artist'] = newSong.get_song_artist

p aName

Regards, Morton