From: Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@...>
Date: 2008-02-07T12:09:33+09:00
Subject: Re: how to put hash values in function

On Feb 7, 2008 4:08 AM, Jano Svitok <jan.svitok@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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

def do_something(*args)
	p args
end

(I've hit enter too soon...)

Jano