From: Nico Ritsche <nico.ritsche@...>
Date: 2008-01-29T15:55:40+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash Sorting

Siep Korteling wrote:
> 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



Hi Siep, yeah, that was a typo, the last general_event_types should be 
'teachers'.

But nevertheless, this is NOT what I get, its what I like to get!
And I really only want to sort by key, as I explained erlier...

Thanks,
Nico
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