Adding Array Contents Together in rails [closed] - ruby-on-rails

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Trying to add the contents of an array together.
["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"] the way I'm getting that info is with
c = Credit.last
c.payments.map(&:payment_amount).to_a
I'm trying to add up all the values together in the array.

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Credit.last.payments.sum(:payment_amount.to_f)

One thing you may not have considered is that the array ["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"] contains a bunch of strings.
If you were to sum them together like this:
["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"].sum
# or like this as one commenter suggested
["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"].reduce(&:+)
# or the long-handed version
["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"].reduce {|str, val| str + val }
You would actually get "75.0050.0025.00". This is because the individual strings in the array are getting concatenated together.
So in fact, you would need to convert the array to floats or integers first. This can be done like this:
floats = ["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"].collect(&:to_f)
# or the long-handed version
["75.00", "50.00", "25.00"].collect {|val| val.to_f }
Then you can sum the values:
sum = floats.sum
Edit:
I just tried summing a string column via ActiveRecord and got an exception ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid: TinyTds::Error: Operand data type nvarchar is invalid for sum operator.:.
payment_total = Credit.last.payments.sum(:payment_amount)
# returns ActiveRecord::StatementInvalid:
# TinyTds::Error: Operand data type nvarchar is invalid for sum
# operator.
Looks like that won't be an option for you. Although, you could change the datatype of the column so that it is something other than a string. If you change the column datatype then you will be able to use aggregate functions.

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I have an array of objects in which I need to check if it meets a specific criteria.
What I've done is looped through the array and then matched it with the ruby include? object. Problem is I've noticed that there are instances where this causes some codes to return true, when they really should be returning false.
group.plan_codes.each do |code|
normalized_plan_code = code.upcase.gsub(" ", "").gsub("+", "")
normalized_plan_code.include? coverage['plan_description'].upcase.gsub(" ", "").gsub("+", "")
end
I'm basically taking these group.plan_codes and matching them with the coverage['plan_description']. Problem I found was that if the code was something like group plan submitting a code like not group plan would still return true because the group plan is included in the plan description
Would anyone know a better way about doing this? I was thinking it could stop looking after the first element is completed, but am a little caught up on the ruby detect
Use a Regex or a straight equality test (==). For sake of clarity, let's assume (that I'm understanding your question correctly and) that you have an array such as:
plans = [ 'not group plan', 'group plan' ]
and you are trying to find the second element:
including = 'group plan'
plans.detect { |plan| plan.include?(including) }
this returns "not group plan", the first element, because it also includes the string 'group plan'. To remedy that, using regex you could use something like:
plans.detect { |plan| plan.match?(/\A#{Regexp.escape(including)}\z/) }
Now, this returns the second element, because you're looking for an exact match. Since it is an exact match, though, you could also use something simpler:
plans.detect { |plan| plan == including }
What the regex gives you is if each plan can include multiple items:
plans = ['plan a,not group plan,plan b', 'plan a,group plan,plan b']
Which is a comma separated list of plan codes and you're looking for any plan that includes 'group plan', now you can use the regex:
plans.detect { |plan| plan.match?(/,#{Regexp.escape(including)},/) }
and have the second element returned. You'll need to work the regex into a format that works for how you are saving the plan codes (in this example, I chose comma separated list, you might have tabs or semicolons or whatever else. If you have just a white space separated list of codes that can contain whitespace, you need to do more work and reject any items that include any codes that are longer and include the code you're looking for.

Checking multip hash keys if present [closed]

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Any tips to refactor this condition?
params = {:p1=>"foo", :p2=>true, :p3=>nil, :pN=>""}
if params[:p1].present? && params[:p2].present? && params[:pN].present?
# do something...
Something like this:
params.values_at(:p1, :p2, :pN).all?(&:present?)
if params.values_at(*%i[p1 p2 p3]).all?(&:present?)
values_at returns an Array of the values for each key you provide.
all? is true iff the predicate (present?) is true for every member of the enumerable. values_at will include nil for a missing key (rather than omit it), so you don't need to worry about the array collapsing down to only present values.
keys = [:p1, :p2, :pN]
puts "hi" if keys.all? { |k| params[k].present? }
This has the advantage of terminating the hash lookup as soon as params[k].present? is false.

Rails: list column name if true [closed]

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I've got a pretty standard Preferences table. I'd like to list all true booleans for each record therein. How would I go about that? I know that Preference.column_names will give me all, but I need each record's particular true settings. Any idea? Something like
#preference.column_names do |c|
c if c = true
end
Thanks!
Here's the general idea of looping through an objects attributes with the attribute name and value. Are you having to filter out only boolean fields? Or are all the fields boolean?
#preference.attributes.each do |attr_name, attr_value|
"#{attr_name} is #{attr_value}" if attr_value == true
end
First you'll need to know the boolean columns, something like this should give you their names:
booleans = Model.columns.select { |c| c.type == :boolean }.map(&:name)
Then you can use send to extract the values based on a name and a simple "is it true" test takes care of the rest:
trues = booleans.select { |name| #preference.send(name) == true }

Ruby: Dynamically build member name of a struct? [closed]

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I have two questions.
1) I need to create a dynamic structure, whose members are driven through an array.
For ex:
members = [:a, :b]
Config = Struct.new(members) #=> Struct.new(:a, :b)
FlatConfig = Struct.new(members) #=> Struct.new(:a, :b)
config = Config.new()
flat = FlatConfig.new()
After some days, If I need to add another member to these struct, then all I need to do is add a member in that members array (memebers = [:a, :b, :c]) and I don't need to tough the code further. Thus I am asking this. How to achieve this?
2) Now I need to build the values of flat Struct members by means of doing some manipulation on config struct member values.
For eg:
config.each{|configMember|
result = configMember.collect{|c| someArray.collect{|s| s + '--' + y}}
flat[":#{cofigMember}"] = result #=> Intent is to store result in same member as iterated through config struct.
}
How to achieve (1) and (2)?
Thanks in advance.
For your 1), use the splat operator:
Struct.new(*members)
I don't really understand your second question. Is "how can I access the same variable in two configs"?
config.members.each { |key|
configMember = config[key]
# do something
flat[key] = result
}

Better way to sum values in an array of hashes [closed]

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I need to sum values in an array hashes and I found a way to do it here
but it sure seems like there should be a more elegant way in Ruby.
Here is what works;
sales = [{"sale_price"=>210000, "deed_type"=>"Warranty Deed"}, {"sale_price"=>268300, "deed_type"=>"Warranty Deed Joint"}]
total_sales = sales.inject(0) {|sum, hash| sum + hash["sale_price"]}
The totals line is not very readable. It would be nice if something like this worked;
total_sales = sales.sum("sale_price")
Is this just wishful thinking or am I overlooking a better solution?
I like using the map/reduce metaphor like so:
total_sales = sales.map {|s| s['sale_price']}.reduce(0, :+)
The reduce method is a synonym for the inject method, I find the name inject to be somewhat confusing with the memo component. It has another form I use above to take the initial value and a reference to a method call used for the combination/reduction process.
I think the overall pattern of mapping the values and then reducing them to an aggregate is well known and self-documenting.
EDIT: Use symbol :+ instead of proc reference &:+
You can make it work:
sales = [{"sale_price"=>210000, "deed_type"=>"Warranty Deed"}, {"sale_price"=>268300, "deed_type"=>"Warranty Deed Joint"}]
def sales.sum(by)
inject(0){|sum, h| sum + h[by]}
end
p sales.sum("sale_price") #=> 478300
Note this sum method (sum_by might be a better name) is not defined on Array, but only on the specific sales array.

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