Re: how to group visitors using hours

On Mon, Mar 2, 2009 at 9:12 PM, Ayeye Brazov <[e-mail]> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I've got this problem, I have a Visitor class that keep tracks
> of visitors. Each visitor has "created_at" field.
> I'd like to group them by hours using "created_at"
>
> I came up with this solution, but I'm not very happy about it...
>
> First, I create a list having ["yy-mm-dd hh",visitor.id], with
>
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0list =3D visitors.map{|i| [i.created_at.strftime("%Y-%m-%d %=
H"),
> i.id]}
>
> Then, I group each visitor depending on the hours using an Hash
>
> =C2=A0 hs=3D {}
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0for l in list
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0if hs.has_key?(l.first)
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0hs[l.first] << l.second # Use the hour as inde=
x, and append the
> visitor id
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0else
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0hs[l.first] =3D [l.second]
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0end
> =C2=A0 =C2=A0end
>
> The result is a Hash hs, and I can use it to get the visitors
> given a certain hour.
>
> However, I'm sure there's a better way of doing it, especially if
> I'd like to group visitors for "months" or "years"
>
> Any suggestions please?!
> thanks
> b.
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>
>

require 'pp'

class Visitor
  attr_accessor :created_at

  def initialize(time)
    @created_at =3D time
  end
end

visitors =3D Array.new(10){ Visitor.new(Time.at(rand(2e9))) }

pp visitors.group_by{|v| v.created_at.hour }
{6=3D>
  [#<Visitor:0xb7bc034c @created_at=3DTue Jul 04 06:22:51 +0900 1978>,
   #<Visitor:0xb7bc00a4 @created_at=3DThu Jul 26 06:27:32 +0900 1979>],
 18=3D>
  [#<Visitor:0xb7bc0194 @created_at=3DWed Jun 27 18:31:17 +0900 2018>,
   #<Visitor:0xb7bbffdc @created_at=3DSun Oct 03 18:37:50 +0900 1993>],
 13=3D>[#<Visitor:0xb7bc0108 @created_at=3DWed Feb 10 13:20:34 +0900 2027>]=
,
 2=3D>
  [#<Visitor:0xb7bc0158 @created_at=3DFri Jan 10 02:22:01 +0900 2003>,
   #<Visitor:0xb7bc0054 @created_at=3DSun May 30 02:15:58 +0900 1993>],
 9=3D>[#<Visitor:0xb7bbff8c @created_at=3DTue Oct 05 09:32:10 +0900 2032>],
 4=3D>[#<Visitor:0xb7bc0388 @created_at=3DMon May 01 04:03:29 +0900 2006>],
 10=3D>[#<Visitor:0xb7bc002c @created_at=3DMon Jun 27 10:28:29 +0900 1994>]=
}

^ manveru