On Oct 8, 8:00 ¨Βν¬ Πετε ΘοδησοΌπθοδη®®®ΐμωςισ®γονΎ χςοτεΊ
> Hi folks,
>
> Given:
>
> Person = Struct.new(:name,:age,:city)
> people_array = [
> Person.new('bob',12,'SFO'),
> Person.new('dave',14,'NYC'),
> Person.new('jane',6,'LDN') ]
>
> people_map = {}
> people_array.each{ |p| people_map[p.name] = p }
>
> Is there a cleaner way to build people_map? I'm thinking there might be
> something like:
>
> people_map = people_array.to_map{ |x| x.name }
>
> in the standard library somewhere that I don't know of.
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
> Pete

Hash[ * people_array.map{|x| [ x.name, x ] }.flatten ]
    ==>{"dave" => #<struct Person name="dave", age=14, city="NYC">,
"jane" => #<struct Person name="jane", age=6, city="LDN">,
"bob" => #<struct Person name="bob", age=12, city="SFO">}