Creating array of hashes

Rails
1

I have a problem,

please check the code

Fields = Array.new
Fields [0] = “sno”
Fields [1] = “username”
Fields [2] = “designation”
Fields [3] = “salary”
Fields [4] = “dob”
Fields [5] = “email”
Fields [6] = “doj”

These are the fields of the object ‘Employee’

The Employees array contains of the set of employee objects…

I need to have the array of hashes as
[{employee_record1},{employee_record2}… n records]

For this i tried as the…

result = []

for employee in Employees
res = {}
for field in fields
res << { field => employee.send(field)}
end
result << res
end
But it is not working…

Finally i have to replace the ‘result’ with the PDF::SimpleTable.data
through the statement

=> table.data.replace result

which accepts only the hashes… whose columns are the keys and the
column
data as values

Please Help me Thank You

2

Hi - see below…

hema gonaboina wrote:
…

for field in fields

You used ‘Fields’ above instead of ‘fields’ here.

  res << { field => employee.send(field)}

res[field] = employee.send(field)

‘res’ is a hash. You build it by setting key/value pairs not pushing
onto a sequential array.
That should probably do it.

Some other things that might be of interest:
employee.attributes
will give you a hash of all the fields and their values for an
employee object but you might only be wanting a subset. (You could
‘delete’ them.)
Employee.column_names
will give you an array of all the column names.

which accepts only the hashes… whose columns are the keys and the column
data as values

Please Help me Thank You

–
Daniel B.