From: "Augie De Blieck Jr." <augiedb@...>
Date: 2007-03-26T21:55:08+09:00
Subject: Re: sorting an array basedon two attributes of objects

I think you could try this:

results = person.sort_by { |p| [p.salary, p.name] }

That should sort by salary first, then name.

-Augie

On 3/26/07, senthil <senthilkumar@srishtisoft.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>      I want to sort the objects of array based on two attributes.I want
> sort an employee class based on his salary and name , so that if two
> person has same salary it should be sorted with name.
>      Lets say for example the employee objects has following name and
> salary.
>
>          name      salary
>            d        100
>            c        200
>            b        50
>            a        100
>
>
>      so in this case the result which i expect is
>
>          name      salary
>            c        50
>            a        100
>            d        100
>            b        200
>
>   Note:In the above example for salary 100 the sorting is done
> alphabetically, but initially(before sorting) 'd' came first and then
> 'a' came.so basically i want to sort the array with more than one order.
>   Can any one help me to solve it ??
>
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