From: Matthew Pounsett <matt@...>
Date: 2010-02-02T03:11:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding keys to a hash in a loop


On 2010/02/01, at 13:07, Jack Bauer wrote:

> Marnen Laibow-Koser wrote:
>> The same way you assign to a hash element outside a loop: 
>> output_hash[item.name] = value .  << is only useful with arrays, not 
>> hashes.
> 
> 
> Thanks, I know << is only for arrays. Using = will only end up with one 
> key and not all 10 that I'm trying to get.

Hi Jack.

The suggestion is not to just replace << with = like this:

output.each do |item|
 output_hash = {item.name => []}
end

The suggestion is to use = in a normal hash assignment:

output.each do |item|
 output_hash[item.name] = []
end

HTH,
  Matt