Get value of hash key without loop - ruby-on-rails

I'm trying to get the value of id returned from the response.body function. The only way I got it to work is to loop on elements then assign $record_id to it.
JSON.parse(response.body).each do | k , v |
if k == 'id'
$record_id = v
end
I have similar functions like above used in my code, with the result that the script started to take a long time before it finishes.
Is there is a way I could get the value of first hash without looping?

record_id = JSON.parse(response.body)["id"]

Form the ruby documentation of JSON.parse:
my_hash = JSON.parse('{"hello": "goodbye"}')
puts my_hash["hello"] => "goodbye"

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No Output for the Elixir Program

I am trying to solve a dynamic problem finding the subsets i have written the code but i didn't know why i am not getting anything it just blinks after running Todos.sum_of_one(arr_of_digits, sum_val), I think the problem is in the terminating case when n==0, can anyone please tell me where is the mistake
def Todos do
#find all the subsets whose sum is equal to sum_val
def sumofone(arr_of_digits,n,v,sum)do
if(sum==0) do
for i <- v do
i
end
end
#return if n becomes 0
if(n==0) do
v
end
sumofone(arr_of_digits,n-1,v,sum)
k = Enum.at(arr_of_digits,n-1)
#inserting the element in the list
[k | v]
sumofone(arr_of_digits,n-1,v,sum - arr_of_digits[n-1]);
end
def sum_of_one(arr_of_digits, sum_val) do
v = []
sumofone(arr_of_digits,l,v,sum_val)
end
end
It looks like you're trying to return from the function in the two if expressions. Elixir doesn't work that way - it always* runs through the entire function and returns the value of the last expression in the function.
One way to get around this is to break up the code into different function clauses, where each clause matches one of the conditions you're testing for:
# This clause executes when the fourth argument is 0
def sumofone(_arr_of_digits,_n,v,0) do
for i <- v do
i
end
end
# This clause executes when the second argument is 0
def sumofone(_arr_of_digits,0,v,_sum) do
v
end
# This clause executes in all other cases, as long as n is greater than 0
def sumofone(arr_of_digits,n,v,sum) when n > 0 do
sumofone(arr_of_digits,n-1,v,sum)
k = Enum.at(arr_of_digits,n-1)
#inserting the element in the list
[k | v]
sumofone(arr_of_digits,n-1,v,sum - arr_of_digits[n-1]);
end
With this change, it's guaranteed that the function will actually terminate. It still won't do what you expect it to do, since there are two lines that calculate a value but throw it away. In Elixir, if you want to update the value of a variable, you need to do so explicitly. Did you mean something like this?
sum = sumofone(arr_of_digits,n-1,v,sum)
and
#inserting the element in the list
v = [k | v]
But I'll leave that for you to debug.
Note that I prefixed some of the argument names with an underscore. Without that, the compiler would give a warning about the variable being unused. With the underscore, it's clear that this is in fact intended.
* Except if you're using errors, throws and exits. But try not to use them - it's often clearer not to.

[lua]: Key with value 1 doesnt do the same as regular 1

Ive been coding for a mod Im making for a game but I ran into an issue with tables not returning values when the key is entered:
for k, v in pairs(self.math) do
print(self.exce[1])
print(self.exce[k])
print(k)
if self.exce[k] ~= nil then
self.math[k] = nil
end
end
This is the specific part of the script that is breaking. When I run these in the game it returns:
[lua]: true
[lua]: nil
[lua]: 1
Which means is basically saying that 1 is not equal to 1.
The function I used to store my data is
function filterExceptions.server_onException( self, id )
if self.exce[id] == nil then
self.exce[id] = true
self.network:sendToClients( "client_onList", id )
else
self.exce[id] = true
self.network:sendToClients( "client_offList", id )
end
end
In this code the self is a table made by the game you can acces and get game data from or store it in and the id comes from a function I made to get the players id. This id in this case is a 1 (I printed it multiple times).I know that every part of this code is working except for the code in the first block, and escpecialy the part where it tries to do self.exce[k]. Ive tried a lot like going trough every variable in self.exce to see if it was in there and then do stuff, but it still wouldn't work. Its very annoying how lua thinks that k ~= 1 while it definitely is, ive even used similar code in a part that is working.
So what is wrong about this code that its not printing the self.exce[k] while self.exce[1] does work? Dont worry about the creation of the table and stuff, cuz that is already happening whenever it is needed, else it would have given errors about that too.
Putting together a couple different comments and your code here, it looks like the index value of the array in some particular iteration of the "for in pairs" loop (or perhaps all of them, but I'll touch on that in a minute) is a string instead of an integer.
To summarize if you don't want to read the entire thing, "for k, v in pairs" loops will iterate through an entire array, setting k to the index of the value v. It appears your "for in pairs" loop is attempting to iterate through a value of nil where k is a string instead of an integer. You may also want to look into using ipairs instead of pairs in your for loop.
The value of someArray[1]is different than the value of someArray["1"].
The index [1] is a completely different index than the index ["1"] for any given array.
A simple fix would be to use
ind = tonumber(k)
print(self.exce[ind])
This converts the string k to a number type. Be aware this may throw an error if k is a non-numerical string. If the array has any values where the index is a non-numerical string, you may get an error. As the other answer suggests, converting the index k to a string instead of an integer would work as well, and would not throw errors if you used a non-numerical value for your indices.
My guess as to why this is happening would be that the function that you're using to store your data to an array, filterExceptions.server_onException( self, id ), is being passed a string instead of an integer, which would result in the k value being set to a string in that particular iteration of the "for in pairs" loop.
To help better understand this, here's a bit of example code:
a = {true, false, false}
a[1] = true
a["1"] = true
print("Raw for in pairs loop")
for k, v in pairs (a) do
print(type(k)..k)
end
print("For in pairs converting k to a number")
for k, v in pairs (a) do
ind = tonumber(k)
print(type(ind)..ind)
end
print("For in ipairs")
--which I'm not sure I completely understand but
--it seems to skip over any iteration where k is not a number
for k, v in ipairs(a) do
print(type(k)..k)
end
This code produces the following output:
Raw for in pairs loop
number1
number2
number3
string1
For in pairs converting k to a number
number1
number2
number3
number1
For in ipairs
number1
number2
number3
EDIT: Not sure what's going on in the self.math table so I can't comment on that.
EDIT2: I'd also refer you to the following link: lua: iterate through all pairs in table
The top answer there should help understand the difference between pairs and ipairs, if you don't already. You may want to use ipairs to prevent values of k where v == nil from being iterated through with pairs. pairs will iterate through every key/value pair, whereas ipairs will iterate through integer keys starting at 1 and going until it hits a nil value.
EDIT3: I'm sorry this is such a long answer...I just wanted to be thorough.
It apears converting the id to a string fixes this, tough im still confused as to why this same code worked on another block and not this one.
function filterExceptions.server_onException( self, id )
local id2 = tostring(id)
if self.exce[id2] == nil then
self.exce[id2] = true
self.network:sendToClients( "client_onList", id )
else
self.exce[id2] = true
self.network:sendToClients( "client_offList", id )
end
end

nil value after loadstring on a table

I'm doing a loadstring() on a table but the result is still a nil value for my variable m.
I guess I would expect it to be a table. What am I missing with loadstring()? Does it not work this way?
local m = assert (loadstring("data = { [1] = 10}"))()
Your code inside loadstring should probably be "return {10}".
After running that code, m will be nil, but you'll have a global data.

Ruby method returns hash values in binary

I wrote a method that takes six names then generates an array of seven random numbers using four 6-sided dice. The lowest value of the four 6-sided dice is dropped, then the remainder is summed to create the value. The value is then added to an array.
Once seven numbers have been generated, the array is then ordered from highest to lowest and the lowest value is dropped. Then the array of names and the array of values are zipped together to create a hash.
This method ensures that the first name in the array of names receives the highest value, and the last name receives the lowest.
This is the result of calling the method:
{:strength=>1, :dexterity=>1, :constitution=>0, :intelligence=>0, :wisdom=>0, :charisma=>1}
As you can see, all the values I receive are either "1" or "0". I have no idea how this is happening.
Here is the code:
module PriorityStatGenerator
def self.roll_stats(first_stat, second_stat, third_stat, fourth_stat, fifth_stat, sixth_stat)
stats_priority = [first_stat, second_stat, third_stat, fourth_stat, fifth_stat, sixth_stat].map(&:to_sym)
roll_array = self.roll
return Hash[stats_priority.zip(roll_array)]
end
private
def self.roll
roll_array = []
7.times {
roll_array << Array.new(4).map{ 1 + rand(6) }.sort.drop(1).sum
}
roll_array.reverse.delete_at(6)
end
end
This is how I'm calling the method while I'm testing:
render plain: PriorityStatGenerator.roll_stats(params[:prioritize][:first_stat], params[:prioritize][:second_stat], params[:prioritize][:third_stat], params[:prioritize][:fourth_stat], params[:prioritize][:fifth_stat], params[:prioritize][:sixth_stat])
I added require 'priority_stat_generator' where I'm calling the method, so it is properly calling it.
Can someone help me make it return proper values between 1 and 18?
Here's a refactoring to simplify things and use an actually random number generator, as rand is notoriously terrible:
require 'securerandom'
module PriorityStatGenerator
def self.roll_stats(*stats)
Hash[
stats.map(&:to_sym).zip(self.roll(stats.length).reverse)
]
end
private
def self.roll(n = 7)
(n + 1).times.map do
4.times.map { 1 + SecureRandom.random_number(6) }.sort.drop(1).inject(:+)
end.sort.last(n)
end
end
This makes use of inject(:+) so it works in plain Ruby, no ActiveSupport required.
The use of *stats makes the roll_stats function way more flexible. Your version has a very rigid number of parameters, which is confusing and often obnoxious to use. Treating the arguments as an array avoids a lot of the binding on the expectation that there's six of them.
As a note it's not clear why you're making N+1 roles and then discarding the last. That's the same as generating N and discarding none. Maybe you meant to sort them and take the N best?
Update: Added sort and reverse to properly map in terms of priority.
You need to learn to use IRB or PRY to test snippets of your code, or better, learn to use a debugger. They give you insight into what your code is doing.
In IRB:
[7,6,5,4,3,2,1].delete_at(6)
1
In other words, delete_at(6) is doing what it's supposed to, but that's not what you want. Instead, perhaps slicing the array will behave more like you expect:
>> [7,6,5,4,3,2,1][0..-2]
[
[0] 7,
[1] 6,
[2] 5,
[3] 4,
[4] 3,
[5] 2
]
Also, in your code, it's not necessary to return a value when that operation is the last logical step in a method. Ruby will return the last value seen:
Hash[stats_priority.zip(roll_array)]
As amadan said, I can't see how you are getting the results you are, but their is a definite bug in your code.
The last line in self.roll is the return value.
roll_array.reverse.delete_at(6)
Which is going to return the value that was deleted. You need to add a new lines to return the roll_array instead of the delete_at value. You are also not sorting your array prior to removing that last item which will give you the wrong values as well.
def self.roll
roll_array = []
7.times {
roll_array << Array.new(4).map{ 1 + rand(6) }.sort.drop(1).sum
}
roll_array.sort.drop(1)
roll_array
end

Multiple-get in one go - Redis

How can we use lua scripting to implement multi-get.
Let's say if I've set name_last to Beckham and name_first to David. What should the lua script be in order to get both name_last and name_first in one go?
I can implement something like:
eval "return redis.call('get',KEYS[1])" 1 foo
to get the value of single key. Just wondering on how to enhance that scripting part to get values related to all keys (or multiple keys) by just making one call to redis server.
First, you want to send the fields you want to return to EVAL (the 0 indicates that there are no KEYS so these arguments will be accessible from ARGV):
eval "..." 0 name_last name_first
Second, you can query the values for the individual fields using MGET:
local values = redis.call('MGET', unpack(ARGV))
Third, you can maps the values back to the field names (the index of each value corresponds to the same field):
local results = {}
for i, key in ipairs(ARGV) do
results[key] = values[i]
end
return results
The command you'll end up executing would be:
eval "local values = redis.call('MGET', unpack(ARGV)); local results = {}; for i, key in ipairs(ARGV) do results[key] = values[i] end; return results" 0 name_last name_first
Do a loop over the KEYS table and for each store its GET response in a take that you return. Untested code:
local t = {}
for _, k in pairs(KEYS) do
t[#t+1] = redis.call('GET', k)
end
return t
P.S. You can also use MGET instead btw :)

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