Ruby hashes

[Alvaro Perez]

Is there a way in Ruby to pass a hash value from string (or whatever) to
an Array dinamically?

Example: An array of objects Teacher, each with his name and belonging
school. After iterating though its elements, we want an output of the
type, "school_name_A" => "teacher_name_A", "school_name_B" =>
["teacher_name_B", "teacher_name_C"].

...or maybe there is another simpler way of doing this?

 

[Alex Young]

Is there a way in Ruby to pass a hash value from string (or whatever) to
an Array dinamically?

Example: An array of objects Teacher, each with his name and belonging
school. After iterating though its elements, we want an output of the
type, "school_name_A" => "teacher_name_A", "school_name_B" =>
["teacher_name_B", "teacher_name_C"].

It's easier if you allow:

{"school_name_A" => ["teacher_name_A"],
"school_name_B" => ["teacher_name_B", "teacher_name_C"]}

That way you can do this:

schools = Hash.new{|h,k| h[k] = []}
teachers.each {|teacher| schools[teacher.school] << teacher.name}

 

[Sebastian Hungerecker]

Example: An array of objects Teacher, each with his name and belonging
school. After iterating though its elements, we want an output of the
type, "school_name_A" => "teacher_name_A", "school_name_B" =>
["teacher_name_B", "teacher_name_C"].

hash = Hash.new {|h,k| h[k] = []}
teachers.each do |teacher|
hash[teacher.school] << teacher.name
end


HTH,
Sebastian

 

[Alvaro Perez]

Wow, exactly same solution

but it works! thank you very much to both.