From: Aldric Giacomoni <aldric@...>
Date: 2010-03-23T03:13:26+09:00
Subject: Sorting keys of hash based on value

Let's say we have this contrived example:

hash = {:a => {:happy => 5},
        :b => {:happy => 4},
        :c => {:happy => 7}
}

I would like to get the keys sorted by descending :happy value, like so:

[:c, :a, :b]

How would I do this?
The best I've come up with is this:

irb(main):018:0> hash.sort_by { |x, y| -y[:happy] }
=> [[:c, {:happy=>7}], [:a, {:happy=>5}], [:b, {:happy=>4}]]

It's not elegant :(
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