From: yermej <yermej@...>
Date: 2010-02-02T15:30:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Adding keys to a hash in a loop

On Feb 1, 11:35 am, Jack Bauer <realmadrid2...@yahoo.es> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm trying to essentially accomplish this behavior:
>
> output.each do |item|
>   output_hash << {item.name => []}
> end

Depending on how you'll be using output_hash, you might use a default
value instead of individually initializing the values. Based on your
sample, you can likely use:

output_hash = Hash.new {|hash, key| hash[key] = Array.new}

I'm guessing this is what Robert was hinting at.