Manipulate array of hashes into grouped hashes with arrays - arrays

Question

I have an array of hashes:
[
{
"June" => { "A" => { 3 => 48.4 } }
},
{
"January" => { "C" => { 2 => 88.0} }
},
{
"January"=> { "B" => { 2 => 44.0} }
},
{
"January"=> { "C" => { 4 => 48.8} }
}
]
I need to group each similar hash key into an array of the subsequent values like the following:
{
"June" => [{ "A" => [{ 3 => 48.4 }]] },
"January" => [
{ "B" => [{ 2 => 44.0}],
{ "C" => [{ 2 => 88.0}, { 4 => 48.8}],
] }
}
I am looking for an efficient method of grouping these elements. Can anyone help me master this hash of hashes?
I am trying to avoid looping through the base array and grouping manually. I was hoping that map (or some other enumerable method) might give what I want. When I used reduce(Hash.new, :merge), it came close but it used the last hash for each month key instead of adding it to an array.

Answer 1

Note: I added the following after gaining a clearer understanding of the question. My original answer is below.
Here is the OP's array of hashes, modified slightly.
arr = [{ "June" =>{ "A"=>{ 3=>48.4 } } },
{ "January"=>{ "C"=>{ 2=>88.0 } } },
{ "January"=>{ "B"=>{ "D"=>{ 2=>44.0 } } } },
{ "January"=>{ "C"=>{ 2=>10.0 } } },
{ "January"=>{ "C"=>{ 4=>48.8 } } }]
The hash to be constructed appears to be the following.
{ "June" =>[{ "A"=>[{ 3=>48.4 }] }],
"January"=>[{ "B"=>[{ "D"=>[{ 2=>44.0 }] }] }],
"C"=>[{ 2=>98.0, 4=>48.8 }] }] }
Note that 88.0 + 10.0 #=> 98.0 in 2=>98.0.
Observe that all the arrays within arr contain a single element, a hash. That being the case, those arrays serve no useful purpose. I therefore suggest the following hash be constructed instead:
{ "June" =>{ "A"=>{ 3=>48.4 } },
"January"=>{ "B"=>{ "D"=>{ 2=>44.0 } } },
"C"=>{ 2=>98.0, 4=>48.8 } } }
This can be produced with the following recursive method.
def recurse(arr)
arr.map(&:flatten).
group_by(&:first).
each_with_object({}) do |(k,v),h|
o = v.map(&:last)
h.update(k=>o.first.is_a?(Hash) ? recurse(o) : o.sum )
end
end
recurse(arr)
#=> {"June"=>{"A"=>{3=>48.4}},
# "January"=>{"C"=>{2=>98.0, 4=>48.8}, "B"=>{"D"=>{2=>44.0}}}}
(Original answer follows)
Here are two ways to obtain the desired hash. I assume that arr is your array of hashes.
#1 Use the form of Hash::new that takes a block
arr.each_with_object(Hash.new { |h,k| h[k] = [] }) do |g,h|
k, v = g.to_a.first
h[k] << v
end
# => {"June"=>[{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}],
# "January"=>[{"C"=>{2=>88.0}}, {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}, {"C"=>{4=>48.8}}]}
#2 Use Enumerable#group_by
arr.map(&:first).
group_by(&:first).
tap { |h| h.keys.each { |k| h[k] = h[k].map(&:last) } }
# => {"June"=>[{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}],
# "January"=>[{"C"=>{2=>88.0}}, {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}, {"C"=>{4=>48.8}}]}
The steps are as follows.
a = arr.map(&:first)
#=> [["June", {"A"=>{3=>48.4}}], ["January", {"C"=>{2=>88.0}}],
# ["January", {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}], ["January", {"C"=>{4=>48.8}}]]
b = a.group_by(&:first)
#=> {"June"=>[["June", {"A"=>{3=>48.4}}]],
# "January"=>[["January", {"C"=>{2=>88.0}}], ["January", {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}],
# ["January", {"C"=>{4=>48.8}}]]}
c = b.tap { |h| h.keys.each { |k| h[k] = h[k].map(&:last) } }
#=> {"June"=>[{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}],
# "January"=>[{"C"=>{2=>88.0}}, {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}, {"C"=>{=>48.8}}]}
Let me elaborate the last step. Inside tap's block, we compute the following.
h = b
d = h.keys
#=> ["June", "January"]
The first element of d is passed to each's block and the block variable is assigned to that element.
k = d.first
#=> "June"
The block calculation is as follows.
e = h[k]
#=> [["June", {"A"=>{3=>48.4}}]]
f = e.map(&:last)
#=> [{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}]
h[k] = f
#=> [{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}]
b #=> {"June"=>[{"A"=>{3=>48.4}}],
# "January"=>[["January", {"C"=>{2=>88.0}}],
# ["January", {"B"=>{2=>44.0}}],
# ["January", {"C"=>{4=>48.8}}]]}
Next, d[1] ("January") is passed to each's block and similar calculations are performed.
Rather than using Object#tap I could have written
h = arr.map(&:first).
group_by(&:first)
h.keys.each { |k| h[k] = h[k].map(&:last) }
h
tap merely avoids the creation of local variable h and the need to have a final line equal to h.