From: "Peña, Botp" <botp@...>
Date: 2008-07-21T12:57:37+09:00
Subject: Re: Grouping/Sorting an Array of objects

From: Howard Roberts [mailto:howardroberts@comcast.net] 
#...
# @data.sort{|x,y| Time.parse(x.date) <=> Time.parse(y.date)}).each do
# |foo|
#   puts Foo.date # Still shows date on each loop, but okay
#   puts Foo.name
#   [..]
# end

try,

  @data.sort_by{|rec| [rec.date, rec.class, rec.name]}

or something like that.

it would be nice if you can post some sample data so we can test it immediately. i'm a slow typist ;)


# To get things in date order, but when I consider mixing a 
# second object into the array, that confounds matters for me. 
# I suspect group_by{|item| item.class} may be part of the solution, 
# but I'm not sure how?

that is possible too, but let us take it one at a time ;)

kind regards -botp