From: Siep Korteling <s.korteling@...>
Date: 2008-01-29T07:26:30+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash Sorting

Nico Ritsche wrote:
> result should look like this:
> 
> pi_array_sorted =
> { 'general_event_types',  [GeneralEventType1, GeneralEventType2, ..],
>   'prices',               [Price1, Price2, ..],
>   'specific_event_types', [SpecificEventType1, SpecificEventType2, ..],
>   'general_event_types',  [Teacher1, Teacher2, ..] }
> 
> So the keys should be in alphabetical order, but they arent, (...)

Well, they are, if the last 'general_event_types' is substituted with 
'teachers', what it probably should be.
I guess you want the values sorted.

I don't now Rails, but hey, it's ruby. You can probably do

@parent_items['teachers']  = Teacher.find(:all).sort

in your second and following lines. Or:

pi_array_sorted = @parent_items.sort.by{|key, value|value.sort!;key}

to have your subarrays sorted and the keys as well in one go.

Regards,

Siep



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