From: Mark Thomas <ruby@...>
Date: 2007-07-26T04:40:04+09:00
Subject: Re: how to make a[2][2][3]=4 work?

On Jul 20, 1:57 pm, Fsormok Fsormok <fsor...@inbox.ru> wrote:
> > Sure. Use Perl.
>
> What's the ruby-way of such things?
>
> e.g.:
>
>    int[eth0][ip]   = "10.0.0.1"
>    int[eth0][mask] = "255.255.255.0"
>    int[eth0][cidr] = "24"
>    int[eth1][ip]   = "10.0.1.1"
>    int[eth1][mask] = "255.255.255.0"
>    int[eth1][cidr] = "24"
>    .
>    .
>    .
>
> I like it if I have all these informations handy within one hash. But
> even for me as a realy ruby-newby this looks much more like perl than
> ruby.
>
> It would be great to hear your thoughts how this would be done "the ruby
> way"...
>
> clean and elegant :-)

In my personal opinion, multilevel hashes aren't clean and elegant in
any language. I'd try to make an object out of it:

class Interface
  attr_accessor :name, :ip, :mask, :cidr
end

i = Interface.new
i.name = "eth0"
i.ip = "10.0.0.1"
i.mask = "255.255.255.0"
i.cidr = 24

- Mark.