Creating array of hashes in ruby

Question

I want to create an array of hashes in ruby as:

 arr[0]
     "name": abc
     "mobile_num" :9898989898
     "email" :[email protected]

 arr[1]
     "name": xyz
     "mobile_num" :9698989898
     "email" :[email protected]

I have seen hash and array documentation. In all I found, I have to do something like

c = {}
c["name"] = "abc"
c["mobile_num"] = 9898989898
c["email"] = "[email protected]"

arr << c

Iterating as in above statements in loop allows me to fill arr. I actually rowofrows with one row like ["abc",9898989898,"[email protected]"]. Is there any better way to do this?

Answer 1

Assuming what you mean by "rowofrows" is an array of arrays, heres a solution to what I think you're trying to accomplish:

array_of_arrays = [["abc",9898989898,"[email protected]"], ["def",9898989898,"[email protected]"]]

array_of_hashes = []
array_of_arrays.each { |record| array_of_hashes << {'name' => record[0], 'number' => record[1].to_i, 'email' => record[2]} }

p array_of_hashes

Will output your array of hashes:

[{"name"=>"abc", "number"=>9898989898, "email"=>"[email protected]"}, {"name"=>"def", "number"=>9898989898, "email"=>"[email protected]"}]