hopefully someone might be able to shed some light on this.
I have a ruby test application which I'm fetching data from a
database. I want to store the results into a hash based on the
following principle;
loop through the rows
does the hash contain a key value as read from that row
if it does then place the row into an array and then add it to an
array of rows which might already be within the hash
if the hash doesn't contain the key then create a key and add the
row to an array an append it to the hash
unfortunately i'm relatively new to Ruby and can't figure out how to
do this. In a few simply tests I declare a variable called
a =
when I loop over the returned database rows using row, I assign row
into a
a += row
this works but rather than the array being a length of the total
number of rows, it's actually the length of all the rows multiplied by
the number of columns. I guess the first problem is getting the rows
into a correct array. Once this is done I should be able to say
"hash, have you got a key with the value 1" - the hash might say "yes,
and here is an array of rows." I'll take that array of rows and add
another row to it and save back to the hash.
can anyone help?
hopefully someone might be able to shed some light on this.
I have a ruby test application which I'm fetching data from a
database. I want to store the results into a hash based on the
following principle;
loop through the rows
does the hash contain a key value as read from that row
if it does then place the row into an array and then add it to an
array of rows which might already be within the hash
if the hash doesn't contain the key then create a key and add the
row to an array an append it to the hash
unfortunately i'm relatively new to Ruby and can't figure out how to
do this. In a few simply tests I declare a variable called
a =
when I loop over the returned database rows using row, I assign row
into a
a += row
Some thing like
result = {}
rows.each do |row|
key = find_key_for_row row
result[key] ||=
result[key] << row
end
maybe?
My advice would be to start here:
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/
and look at the Array and Hash classes. You'll learn a lot and be very happy to did.
Peace,
Phillip
I made slight progress with feedback from both Phillip and Frederick.
I can now assign a key to the hash and query whats in the hash based
on that key, but again the hash isn't storing an array of rows, but
rather an array of all the column values from every row... just need
to sort this out....
thanks
Post the code that you currently have. We'll see if we can sort it out.
Peace,
Phillip
Thanks. I've pasted the code below, which might I add is just a load
of test code.
I make the connection to the postgress db and select all the data from
a table called test.
I then loop on the results, and at the moment I simply dump them into
the hash. I plan to add hash.has_key to check beforehand, but the
code below doesn't reflect that.
db = PGconn.connect(*****)
#db.type_translation = true
res = db.exec(' select * from test')
a = {}
res.each do |r|
start_date = DateTime.parse(r[2])
frequency = r[5].to_i
case r[4].to_i
when 1 #yearly
if !do_yearly?(start_date, frequency)
a[r[0]] = r
end
when 2 #monthly
if !do_monthly?(start_date, frequency)
a[r[0]] = r
end
when 3 #weekly
if !do_weekly?(start_date, frequency)
a[r[0]] = r
end
end
end
db.close
I'd try a couple of things.
see below
a = {}
res.each do |r|
start_date = DateTime.parse(r[2])
frequency = r[5].to_i
case r[4].to_i
when 1 #yearly
if !do_yearly?(start_date, frequency)
a[r[0]] = r
a[r[0]] << r
instead of
a[r[0]] = r
The other thing would be to create a[r[0]] as an array explicitly when you check to see if it's there
a[r[0]] = Array.new if !a.has_key?(r[0])
But if Fred offers something, take his advice first 
Peace,
Phillip
found a little more information
a = Hash.new{|hash,key| hash[key] =}
and then use
a[r[0]] << r if !do_yearly?(start_date, frequency)
Do you know Fred then?
Only what I see of him in this group. I haven't seen bad advice come from him yet. And the knowledge he possesses exceeds mine. By quite a bit, it seems. As does that of many others...
Peace,
Phillip
oh right, well that might well be the case but at the very least your
knowledge exceeds mine. I'm in the process of jumping ships from all
out MS to more open source. Played about with Django for a while but
got annoyed with the limitations imposed by the template language.
Then Ruby on Rails came to light. Done a few small projects on it and
feel that I'm coming along with leaps and bounds, I just think the
real bottleneck, for me, is learning the Ruby language...not to
mention prototype which is somewhat different than JQuery, which I'm
pretty proficient in.