From: Dossy <dossy@...>
Date: 2002-08-23T20:52:04+09:00
Subject: Re: converting rows into structs

On 2002.08.23, Eugene Scripnik <Eugene.Scripnik@itgrp.net> wrote:
> Friday, August 23, 2002, 2:19:53 PM, you wrote:
> 
> D> Can I ask what the advantage of storing it as a Struct is?
> 
> D> In all my Ruby/DBI code, I do something like this:
> 
> D>     def select(sql)
> D>         sth = $dbh.prepare(sql)
> D>         sth.execute
> D>         results = []
> D>         sth.fetch_hash { |row| results << row.dup }
> D>         sth.finish
> D>         results
> D>     end
> 
> D> Is there any advantage to having it be a Struct instead of an
> D> Array of Hash'es?
> I think there is no advantage, but I really like this syntax:
> people.each { |man| puts "#{man.name} #{man.surname}" }
> 
> This one is not so nice, isn't it?
> people.each { |man| puts "#{man['name']} #{man['surname']}" }

    class Hash
      def method_missing(*args)
        self[args[0].to_s]
      end
    end

;-)

-- Dossy

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