From: Trans <transfire@...>
Date: 2008-10-09T11:54:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Filling a hash from an enumerable



On Oct 8, 9:00 pm, Pete Hodgson <phodg...@lyris.com> wrote:
> Hi folks,
>
> Given:
>
> Person = Struct.new(:name,:age,:city)
> people_array = [
>     Person.new('bob',12,'SFO'),
>     Person.new('dave',14,'NYC'),
>     Person.new('jane',6,'LDN') ]
>
> people_map = {}
> people_array.each{ |p| people_map[p.name] = p }
>
> Is there a cleaner way to build people_map? I'm thinking there might be
> something like:
>
> people_map = people_array.to_map{ |x| x.name }
>
> in the standard library somewhere that I don't know of.

Facets has #graph / #mash.

  require 'facets'

  people_array.graph{ |p| [p.name, p] }

  # or

  people_array.mash{ |p| [p.name, p] }

T.