From: "Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@...>
Date: 2010-11-30T19:16:58+09:00
Subject: Re: Help sorting an array

On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Jim Burgess <jack.zelig@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> First of all, thank you very much for the replies.
> In the mean time I have managed to hack together a small function to do
> what I want, but it is too embarrassingly bad to post here and I used
> one of the other proposed solutions instead.
>
> I agree that a different data structure would be much less cumbersome,
> but I wouldn't know which. What I'm doing is parsing a html document (a
> calendar) into an array, and using that array to create widgets in a
> FXRuby GUI. The month names serve as the title of a label and out of the
> Event objects I then create the appropriate text fields, labels and
> group boxes for each event. As a month can have multiple events I found
> it easier to do it this way, as otherwise I would have to find some way
> of ordering events to month names, which at first glance seemed pretty
> complicated.
>
> If anyone has any suggestions of a better way to approach this problem,
> I would be very glad to hear them.
>
> Thanks for your help so far.

I agree with both Robert and Daniel. I would make the month a field of
the Event, so you can query it, order events by month, etc. And then I
would also go with Daniel's suggestion of having a hash indexed by
month so you can get at the set of events for a month easily when you
need it (for example, when the user clicks on Next Month).

Jesus.