Rails: How to merge two hashes if a specific key has the same value? - ruby-on-rails

Question

I'm trying to merge hashes if a specific key has the same value.
here is the array
[{
id: 77,
member_phone: "9876543210",
created_at: "2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z",
name: "Sure"
},
{
id: 77,
member_phone: "123456789",
created_at: "2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z",
name: "Sure"
},
{
id: 78,
member_phone: "12345",
created_at: "2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z",
name: "XYZ"
}]
and the required output:
[{
id: 77,
member_phone: "123456789,9876543210",
created_at: "2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z",
name: "Sure"
},
{
id: 78,
member_phone: "12345",
created_at: "2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z",
name: "XYZ"
}]
here's the code I tried:
merge_users.group_by { |h1| h1["id"] }.map do |k,v|
{ "id" => k, :member_phone => v.map { |h2| h2[:member_phone] }.join(", ") }
end
how can I do it?

Answer 1

The following code would work for your given example.
code
result = arr.group_by {|h| h[:id]}.values.map do |arr|
arr.reduce do |h1, h2|
h1.merge(h2) do |k, ov, nv|
ov.eql?(nv) ? ov : [ov, nv].join(",")
end
end
end
p result
#=>[{:id=>77, :member_phone=>"9876543210,123456789", :created_at=>"2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z", :name=>"Sure"}, {:id=>78, :member_phone=>"12345", :created_at=>"2017-05-03T11:06:03.000Z", :name=>"XYZ"}]

Answer 2

How about:
grouped = data.group_by do |item|
item[:id]
end
combined = grouped.map do |_id, hashes|
hashes.inject({}) do |memo, hash|
memo.merge(hash)
end
end
It works in two passes:
First group all hashes by the value of the :id key
This returns a Hash with the id as key, and an array (of all the hashes with this id) as value.
In a second pass all the hashes are merged and mapped to an array again.

Answer 3

arr = [
{ id: 77, phone: "9876543210", name: "Sure" },
{ id: 77, phone: "123456789", name: "Sure" },
{ id: 78, phone: "12345", name: "XYZ" }
]
You could use the form of Hash#update (aka merge!) that uses a block to compute the values of keys that are present in both hashes being merged.
arr.each_with_object({}) { |g,h| h.update(g[:id]=>g) { |_,o,n|
o.merge(phone: "#{o[:phone]}#{n[:phone]}") } }.values
#=> [{:id=>77, :phone=>"9876543210123456789", :name=>"Sure"},
# {:id=>78, :phone=>"12345", :name=>"XYZ"}]
Note that the receiver of Hash#values is the following.
#=> {77=>{:id=>77, :phone=>"9876543210123456789", :name=>"Sure"},
# 78=>{:id=>78, :phone=>"12345", :name=>"XYZ"}}
See the doc for Hash#update for definitions of the three block variables _, o and n. I used an underscore for the first variable (a valid name for a local variable) to signify that it is not used in the block calculation (a common practice).
Note that Hash#update can almost always be used when Enumerable#group_by can be used, and vice-versa.
Here's one way to use Hash#group_by here.
arr.group_by { |h| h[:id] }.
map { |_,a| a.first.merge(phone: a.map { |h| h[:phone] }.join) }
#=> [{:id=>77, :phone=>"9876543210123456789", :name=>"Sure"},
# {:id=>78, :phone=>"12345", :name=>"XYZ"}]
Note that
arr.group_by { |h| h[:id] }
#=> {77=>[{:id=>77, :phone=>"9876543210", :name=>"Sure"},
# {:id=>77, :phone=>"123456789", :name=>"Sure"}],
# 78=>[{:id=>78, :phone=>"12345", :name=>"XYZ"}]}