Create a new hash from an existing array of hashes - ruby

Question

I am newbie to ruby . I have an array of hashes input_array
[{
"name"=>"test1",
"zone_status"=>"valid",
"certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>1000,
"name"=>"test2",
"zone_status"=>"valid",
"certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>5000,
"name"=>"test3",
"zone_status"=>"valid",
"certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>3000,
"name"=>"test4",
"zone_status"=>"valid",
"certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>2000}]
and an array
existing_names_array = ["test1","test2"]
The below line gets me all the names into input_names
input_array.each_with_index {|val, index| input_names << input_array[index]['name'] }
But how can I get the input_names to be a hash with name as key and its respective users as value?
Because my final goal is to check the names which are in input_names, but not in existing_names_array and get a count of those names and users
As the names tes1,test2 exists in existing_names_array, I need the count of rest of names and count of their respective users in input_array
Expected output:
output_names = test3, test 4
total_output_names = 2
output_users = 3000,2000
total_output_users = 5000

Answer 1

If you use ActiveSupport's Enumerable#index_by with Ruby core's Hash#transform_values it's pretty easy, if I'm understanding your question correctly:
# add gem 'activesupport' to Gemfile, or use Rails, then ..
require 'active_support/all'
users_and_counts = input_array.
index_by { |hsh| hsh["name"] }.
transform_values { |hsh| hsh["users"] }
# => { "test1" => 1000, "test2" => 5000, ... }
You can do this with Enumerable#reduce (or Enumerable#each_with_object) as well:
users_and_counts = input_array.reduce({}) do |memo, hsh|
memo[hsh["name"]] = hsh["users"]
memo
end
Or, the simplest way, with good old each:
users_and_counts = {}
input_array.each do |hsh|
users_and_counts[hsh["name"]] = hsh["users"]
end
in response to comment
In general, there are a few ways to check whether an element is found in an array:
array = ["foo", "bar"]
# 1. The simple standard way
array.include?("foo") # => true
# 2. More efficient way
require 'set'
set = Set.new(array)
set.member?("foo") # => true
So with this knowledge we can break up our task into a few steps:
Make a new hash which is a copy of the one we built above, but without the key-vals corresponding to users in the existing_names_array (see Hash#select and Hash#reject):
require 'set'
existing_names_set = Set.new(existing_names_array)
new_users_and_counts = users_and_counts.reject do |name, count|
existing_names_set.member?(name)
end
# => { "test3" => 3000, "test4" => 2000 }
Use Hash#keys to get the list of user names:
new_user_names = new_users_and_counts.keys
# => ["test3", "test4"]
Use Hash#values to get the list of counts:
new_user_counts = new_users_and_counts.values
# => [3000, 2000]

Answer 2

I assume input_array is to be as follows.
input_array = [
{ "name"=>"test1", "zone_status"=>"valid", "certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>1000 },
{ "name"=>"test2", "zone_status"=>"valid", "certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>5000 },
{ "name"=>"test3", "zone_status"=>"valid", "certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>3000 },
{ "name"=>"test4", "zone_status"=>"valid", "certificate_status"=>"valid",
"users"=>2000}
]
We are also given:
names = ["test1", "test2"]
The information of interest can be represented nicely by the following hash (which I will construct):
summary = { "test1"=>1000, "test2"=>5000 }
We might use that to compute the following.
names = summary.keys
#=> ["test1", "test2"]
users = summary.values
#=> [1000, 5000]
total_users = users.sum
#=> 6000
There are many ways to construct the hash summary. I prefer the following.
summary = input_array.each_with_object({}) do |g,h|
key = g["name"]
h[key] = g["users"] if names.include?(key)
end
#=> {"test1"=>1000, "test2"=>5000}
Another way is as follows.
summary = input_array.map { |g| g.values_at("name", "users") }.
.to_h
.slice(*names)
See [Hash#values_at(https://ruby-doc.org/core-2.7.0/Hash.html#method-i-values_at), Array#to_h and Hash#slice. The steps are as follows.
arr = input_array.map { |g| g.values_at("name", "users") }
#=> [["test1", 1000], ["test2", 5000], ["test3", 3000], ["test4", 2000]]
h = arr.to_h
#=> {"test1"=>1000, "test2"=>5000, "test3"=>3000, "test4"=>2000}
summary = h.slice(*names)
#=> {"test1"=>1000, "test2"=>5000}
The splat operator converts h.slice(*names), which is h.slice(*["test1", "test2"]), to h.slice("test1", "test2"). That's because Hash#slice was defined to accept a variable number of keys as arguments, rather than an array of keys as the argument.