What is the best way to remap a Hash in Ruby?
Question
Is there a simple way of remapping a hash in ruby the following way:
from:
{:name => "foo", :value => "bar"}
to:
{"foo" => "bar"}
Preferably in a way that makes it simple to do this operation while iterating over an array of this type of hashes:
from:
[{:name => "foo", :value => "bar"}, {:name => "foo2", :value => "bar2"}]
to:
{"foo" => "bar", "foo2" => "bar2"}
Thanks.
Solution
arr = [ {:name=>"foo", :value=>"bar"}, {:name=>"foo2", :value=>"bar2"}]
result = {}
arr.each{|x| result[x[:name]] = x[:value]}
# result is now {"foo2"=>"bar2", "foo"=>"bar"}
OTHER TIPS
A modified version of Vanson Samuel's code does the intended. It's a one-liner, but quite a long one.
arr = [{:name=>"foo", :value=>"bar"}, {:name=>"foo2", :value=>"bar2"}]
arr.inject({}){|r,item| r.merge({item['name'] => item['value']})}
# result {"foo" => "bar", "foo2" => "bar2"}
I wouldn't say that it's prettier than Gishu's version, though.
As a general rule of thumb, if you have a hash of the form {:name => "foo", :value => "bar"}, you're usually better off with using a tuple of ["foo", "bar"].
arr = [["foo", "bar"], ["foo2", "bar2"]]
arr.inject({}) { |accu, (key, value)| accu[key] = value; accu }
I know this is old, but the neatest way to achieve this is to map the array of hashes to an array of tuples, then use Hash[] to build a hash from that, as follows:
arr = [{:name => "foo", :value => "bar"}, {:name => "foo2", :value => "bar2"}]
Hash[ array.map { |item| [ item[:name], item[:value] ] } ]
# => {"foo"=>"bar", "foo2"=>"bar2"}
a bit late but:
[{ name: "foo", value: "bar" },{name: "foo2", value: "bar2"}].map{ |k| k.values }.to_h