From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2009-09-20T05:53:50+09:00
Subject: Re: Array of hashes issue

On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 12:54 AM, Brad Dude <bradsacks99@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jesús Gabriel y Galán wrote:
>>
>> @output = [] # or Array.new
>>
>>
>>> � � �@issues.each {
>>> � � � �|fl|
>>> � � � �@output << {:id => fl.id, :assignee => fl.assignee, :description
>>> => fl.description, :status => fl.status, :type => fl.type, :updated =>
>>> fl.updated}
>>> � � �}
>>> return @output
>>>
>>
>> When things don't go as expected, you can inspect the variables you
>> are dealing with, to see what's going on:
>>
>>> This is where I want to output my results
>>> � � � �issueArray = @JiraClass.getIssuesInFilter(newFilterVal[0])
>>> � � �issueArray.each {
>>> � � � �|iss|
>> p iss
>>> � � � �iss.each {
>>> � � � � �|issSecD|
>> p issSecD
>>> � � � � �puts issSecD[:description], "\n"
>>> � � � �}
>>> � � �}
>>
>>
>> Adding those two lines should give you a clue of what's going on: iss
>> is one of the hashes in the array. issSecD is an array with each
>> [key,value]. If you are only interested in the description:
>>
>> issueArray = @JiraClass.getIssuesInFilter(newFilterVal[0])
>> issueArray.each do |issue|
>>   puts issue[:description]  #puts already prints a "\n". don't know if
>> you actually want 2 of them.
>> end
>>
>> If you want to iterate all of the keys:
>>
>> issueArray = @JiraClass.getIssuesInFilter(newFilterVal[0])
>> issueArray.each do |issue|
>>   issue.each do |key, value|
>>     puts "#{key} => #{value}"
>> end
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>>
>> Jesus.
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> This was very helpful and worked perfectly for me. But, I'm still not
> there on what I want to do. I should have explained better. So, now that
> I have a good hash with my information into it I want to pass it to
> another method. If I were doing this in PHP or something it would look
> like this:
>
> myFunction(issueHash['id'], issueHash['description'],....)
>
> So I guess what I'm missing is how do get my values out using the key?

I think you are setting the hash with symbols as keys, so you retrieve
them passing the hash the appropriate key:

issueHash[:id]
issueHash[:description]
...

(I'm not sure if this is the problem you are facing right now)

Jesus.