How to use include? on an array of objects

Ruby
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I have the following array:

[ product1, product2, product3 ]

All products are of type Product. The Product class defines isntance
attributes such as: title, description, price.

Can I use include? to check if the array has a product which price is
zero? if not what would I need to do? Iterate over each product and set
a variable if a match is found?

2

Use the ‘select’ method of array
http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Array.html#M002214

3

I have the following array:

[ product1, product2, product3 ]

All products are of type Product. The Product class defines isntance
attributes such as: title, description, price.

Can I use include? to check if the array has a product which price is
zero? if not what would I need to do?

You probably want any? :

product_array.any? { |p| p.price.zero? }

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On Nov 21, 2008, at 11:44 AM, Fernando P. wrote:

a variable if a match is found?
Given arr = [ product1, product2, product3 ], and you have a ‘price’
method on your products:

If you want to find the first item of price zero:

arr.find { |prod| prod.price.zero? }

If you want to find all items of price zero:

arr.select { |prod| prod.price.zero? }

If you just want to know that at least one item has zero price:

arr.any? { |prod| prod.price.zero? }
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On Nov 21, 2008, at 09:44 , Fernando P. wrote:

a variable if a match is found?
c’mon guys… teach a man to fish.

Fernando, check out ri. ri is your friend™.

% ri Array
% ri Enumerable

(Array includes Enumerable). There is a LOT of good stuff in
Enumerable. You should poke around and learn as much of it as you can:

% ri Enumerable.find
% ri Enumerable.find_all

etc.

Other places to look are http://ruby-doc.org/ and the PragProg pickaxe
book (Programming Ruby, 2nd ed).