Looping through an array, displaying elements that match a criteria - arrays

Question

I have this big array that I need to break down and only display specific elements within it that match a criteria.
My array looks like this.
[
{
:id => 9789,
:name => "amazing location",
:priority => 1,
:address_id => 12697,
:disabled => false
},
{
:id => 9790,
:name => "better location",
:priority => 1,
:address_id => 12698,
:disabled => false
},
{
:id => 9791,
:name => "ok location",
:priority => 1,
:address_id => 12699,
:disabled => true
}
]
What I need is to only display the elements within this array that have disabled set to true.
However when I try this, I get the error stating no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer
array.map do |settings, value|
p hash[:disabled][:true]
end
I'm wondering if there is another way, or if there is a way to do this. If anyone could take a look, I would greatly appreciate it.

Answer 1

By providing two arguments to #map on an array, you're actually getting the first hash and then nil. When in reality you just want to loop for each and select those where disabled is true. You can do that instead with Array#select which will filter all elements of the array where the block returns a truthy value:
print array.select { |hash| hash[:disabled] }
=> [{:id=>9791, :name=>"ok location", :priority=>1, :address_id=>12699, :disabled=>true}]

Answer 2

You can try this with a short each or select.
a.each { |k,_v| puts k if k[:disabled] == true }
=> {:id=>9791, :name=>"ok location", :priority=>1, :address_id=>12699, :disabled=>true}
This iterates over each element (hash) inside the array you have and checks if the value of the key disabled on each value is true, and puts the key, just for example, you can set it as you want to do.
Or shorter:
puts a.select { |k,_v| k[:disabled] }
=> {:id=>9791, :name=>"ok location", :priority=>1, :address_id=>12699, :disabled=>true}

Answer 3

Your error shows up when you are treating an array or string as a Hash.
In PHP, array keys can be either numbers or strings, whereas in Ruby associative arrays are a separate data type, called a hash.
Here’s a cheatsheet for various foreach variants, translated into idiomatic Ruby:
Looping over a numeric array (PHP) :
<?php
$items = array( 'orange', 'pear', 'banana' );
# without indexes
foreach ( $items as $item ) {
echo $item;
}
# with indexes
foreach ( $items as $i => $item ) {
echo $i, $item;
}
Looping over an array (Ruby) :
items = ['orange', 'pear', 'banana']
# without indexes
items.each do |item|
puts item
end
# with indexes
items.each_with_index do |item, i|
puts i, item
end
Looping over an associative array (PHP) :
<?php
$continents = array(
'africa' => 'Africa',
'europe' => 'Europe',
'north-america' => 'North America'
);
# without keys
foreach ( $continents as $continent ) {
echo $continent;
}
# with keys
foreach ( $continents as $slug => $title ) {
echo $slug, $title;
}
Looping over a hash (Ruby):
continents = {
'africa' => 'Africa',
'europe' => 'Europe',
'north-america' => 'North America'
}
# without keys
continents.each_value do |continent|
puts continent
end
# with keys
continents.each do |slug, title|
puts slug, title
end
In Ruby 1.9 hashes were improved so that they preserved their internal order. In Ruby 1.8, the order in which you inserted items into a hash would have no correlation to the order in which they were stored, and when you iterated over a hash, the results could appear totally random. Now hashes preserve the order of insertion, which is clearly useful when you are using them for keyword arguments in method definitions. (thanks steenslag for correcting me on this)