I try to avoid questions like “Why doesn’t Ruby do what ___ does?”
But I’m stumped by hashes and asking for help to find a new solution.
I use MySQL databases a lot. Let’s say I have a query to find the
top-selling albums in my store:
SELECT sku, artistname, albumtitle, sold FROM albums
ORDER BY sold DESC LIMIT 20;
When I get the hash of results from the database, I’m used to making
the “sku” the hash key since it’s the only unique identifier.
A perfect hash key. Used everywhere by my iteration methods.
In PHP, this is no problem. I get the hash, and I can do the
"each" iteration on it, and get my top-selling albums in order.
In Ruby, it’s an unordered jumble.
Why is that?
And what do you think is the Ruby way solution for what I need to do?
(The simple query I gave above was much simpler, but I have lots and
lots of MySQL queries where I want the results to come back in the
order that MySQL gave them, but with full access to the hash results.)
Thanks!