From: dima <dejan.dimic@...>
Date: 2007-08-30T04:55:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to make an array of hashes to a single array with all the values of these hashes ?

On Aug 29, 8:45 pm, Phrogz <phr...@mac.com> wrote:
> On Aug 29, 12:39 pm, kazaam <kaz...@oleco.net> wrote:
>
> > That's an array of hashes or? But how to get this to an array of the values of these hashes?
>
> Depending on what you want, try either:
>   my_array.map{ |h| h[:url] }
> or
>   my_array.map{ |h| h.values }.flatten

The beauty is that you can do the same stuff in so many different
ways ;-)

data = [{:url=>"http://www.ruby-lang.org/"}, {:url=>"http://www.ruby-
lang.org/en/20020101.html"}, {:url=>"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ruby_programming_language"}, {:url=>"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
Ruby"}, {:url=>"http://www.rubyonrails.org/"}, {:url=>"http://
www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMDcOViViNY"}, {:url=>"http://
www.rubycentral.org/"}, {:url=>"http://www.zenspider.com/Languages/
Ruby/QuickRef.html"}, {:url=>"http://www.rubycentral.com/book/"},
{:url=>"http://poignantguide.net/"}]

a = []

data.collect do |item|
  item.each_value { |value| a << value }
end