From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T12:08:44+09:00
Subject: Re: how to put hash values in function

On Feb 7, 2008 2:23 AM, shawn bright <nephish@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey there,
>
> i have an example function from documentation.
>
> it looks like this
>
> do_something(SomeValue,  2 => 'value', 3 => 'value', 4 => 'value',
> someVar, someOtherVar)

This doesn't work in ruby 1.8 - the hash arguments must be the last
ones (maybe there's an exception, but I don't remember now).
> now if i have a hash that has more or less values than the 3 shown
> above, how could i pass those to the function where the index => value
> is placed into the function ?
>
> exp:
> if i have   myHash = {2 => 'value',  3 => 'value', 4 => 'value'}
>
> how could i put these values in the array ?

If you call do_something(SomeValue, myHash) it's the same as
do_something(SomeValue, 2 => 'value',  3 => 'value', 4 => 'value')

you can check it yourself using

> thanks
>
> sk
>
>