From: "J. B. Rainsberger" <jbrains762@...>
Date: 2006-11-21T15:10:05+09:00
Subject: Re: Create array of hash values

David Lelong wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a hash that contains the following keys/values:
> 
> [#<Contact_List:0x2607150 @attributes={"contact_id"=>"4"}>, 
> #<Contact_List:0x2607114 @attributes={"contact_id"=>"8"}>]
> 
> I want to create an array containing the contact_id values.  What's an 
> easy way to do this?

contact_lists.map { |each| each.attributes["contact_id"] }

Is each of those objects really a ContactList if each only has a single 
contact ID?

Take care.
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