From: Anurag Priyam <anurag08priyam@...>
Date: 2011-05-28T16:21:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Hash .each and different action for each key

> I have a hash table of several items.
>
> What I would like to do is loop through the hash and do a different
> action based on each unique key.
[...]
> Can you please point into the right direction of how to go about solving
> this problem.

Maybe you can adapt the following pattern to your needs:

actions = {
  :a => lambda{|*args| puts "action 'a' called with #{args}" },
  :b => lambda{|*args| puts "action 'b' called with #{args}" }
}

myhashtable= {:a => 'foo', :b => 'moo'}

myhashtable.each {|k, v| actions[k].call(v)}

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