Re: Best way to create hash of hashes

Newsgroups	comp.lang.ruby
Date	2016-06-25 03:47 -0700
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Subject	Re: Best way to create hash of hashes
From	Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com>

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> This is not a valid representation of a Hash.  Which of these do you want?
> 
> irb(main):001:0> { 'Id:123' => [{id:1, name:'John'}, {id:2, name:'Sarah'}]}
> => {"Id:123"=>[{:id=>1, :name=>"John"}, {:id=>2, :name=>"Sarah"}]}
> 
> irb(main):002:0> { Id:123, members: [{id:1, name:'John'}, {id:2, 
> name:'Sarah'}]}
> => {:Id=>123, :members=>[{:id=>1, :name=>"John"}, {:id=>2, :name=>"Sarah"}]}
> 
> ...
> 
> > So that I am saying Sarah and John are members of group id: 123.
> 
> That depends on your input and how you access it.
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> 	robert
> 
> 
> -- 
> remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
> http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/

Is there a particular benefit of one over the other? I want to be able to keep the relation between ids and descendant nodes and then put this into a database, is one more suitable than the other?

Thanks

Sayth

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Best way to create hash of hashes Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-06-24 18:50 -0700
  Re: Best way to create hash of hashes Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-06-25 12:16 +0200
    Re: Best way to create hash of hashes Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-06-25 03:47 -0700
      Re: Best way to create hash of hashes Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-06-25 14:19 +0200
        Re: Best way to create hash of hashes Sayth Renshaw <flebber.crue@gmail.com> - 2016-06-25 08:27 -0700
          Re: Best way to create hash of hashes Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2016-06-26 00:26 +0200

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