From: Farrel Lifson <farrel.lifson@...>
Date: 2006-11-23T14:38:29+09:00
Subject: Re: Compare Array Values?

On 23/11/06, Darshan.Ishaya <Darshan.Ishaya@gmail.com> wrote:
> Well, I'm new to Ruby, but it was an interesting question so I gave it
> a stab.  My first idea was
>
> a.sort == b.sort
>
> which works if all the elements of an array of of the same class.  But
> if you mix objects of different class (like you example with Fixnums
> and a String), sort() craps out on it.  You can pass a block to sort,
> but I couldn't think of a good way to use that to our advantage.  So I
> resorted to more of a brute force method:

Would this work?
 a.sort_by{|n| n.hash} == b.sort_by {|n|n.hash}

Farrel