From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2011-10-04T16:21:02+09:00
Subject: Re: Need some help with hashes, don't know what fails

On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:21 AM, Yossef Mendelssohn <ymendel@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Oct 3, 3:42 am, Antonio Fernández vara
> <antoniofernandezv...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> ## just a sample
>> notifications = Hash.new
>>
>> notifications['1'] = { what: 'text', who: 'Antonio', when: Time.now}
>> notifications['2'] = { what: 'text', who: 'Alfonso', when: Time.now}
>> notifications['3'] = { what: 'text', who: 'Alberto', when: Time.now}
>
> If this is an accurate portrayal of your hash-of-hashes in the real
> code, I suggest you consider an array-of-hashes instead.

Or even an array of Structs, e.g.

Item = Struct.new :what, :who, :when

notifications = [
  Item['text', 'Antonio', Time.now],
  Item['text', 'Antonio', Time.now],
  Item['text', 'Antonio', Time.now],
]

Kind regards

robert

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