From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2009-02-16T20:41:22+09:00
Subject: Re: How to do this complicated logic in ruby

On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Luiz Vitor Martinez Cardoso
<grabber@gmail.com> wrote:
> Using Symbols here make a big sense. Try to structure your array like:
>
>  my_array[0] = {:server => "AHN", :hosp =>"AHN", :loc =>"PC1",
> :pspec=>"ANA", :number=>"1", :pcat=>"1"}
>
> And for all the values that are frequently repeated use Symbols. Basically
> when you use Symbols you create one object and all the times that you use
> one object with the same name you create a referece to this object and NOT
> another object. Making that you will free memory.

Even better: http://www.codeforpeople.com/lib/ruby/arrayfields/

martin