Difference in json array structure in ruby and google maps output - ruby-on-rails

I have been searching on SO regarding the differences in output of the json arrays but haven't got any results useful to my usecase for it . Here's my issue , I have been using Google maps to display shapes and then show the selected portion into another into another map .
The output that Google map shows of selected portion -
[{"type":"RECTANGLE","id":null,"geometry":[[32.33733004161649,50.90904235665221],[32.377641904110355,50.989036558312364]]}]
The output that i recieve while using the to_json method -
"[{\"id\":null,\"type\":\"RECTANGLE\",\"radius\":\"3513.3954239013615\",\"geometry\":\"[32.39126846779702, 50.91075897042174]\"}]"
How or what can i do , to make the output of both the methods same so that i can display the data in the format it's intended to . New to json encode and decoding in rails , any help is much appreciated .
Update 1 - After Omitting the to_json call
[{"id"=>nil, "type"=>"CIRCLE", "radius"=>"3513.3954239013615", "geometry"=>"[32.39126846779702, 50.91075897042174]"}]
Still , the "=>" won't be understood by google maps

Let’s consider you have a following array of hashes in ruby:
a = [{
"id"=>nil,
"type"=>"CIRCLE",
"radius"=>"3513.3954239013615",
"geometry"=>"[32.39126846779702, 50.91075897042174]"
}]
You now need to make it understandable by google map. Here we go:
result = a.map { |e| # will convert geometry to what G expects
ll = JSON.parse e["geometry"]
e["geometry"] = [ll] # passing just a single variable
# you are likely to calc those basing on your radius value
e
}.map(&:to_json)
Now don’t be confused by output of ruby p, it shows escaped strings. To assure, everything goes OK:
result.each { |e| puts e }
#⇒ {
# "id":null,
# "type":"CIRCLE",
# "radius":"3513.3954239013615",
# "geometry":[
# [32.39126846779702,50.91075897042174],
# [32.39126846779702,50.91075897042174]
# ]
# }
Hope it helps.

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Ruby/Rails dictionary app - 6 letter words finder that are built of two concatenated smaller words

I need to create functionality which is going to process the dictionary (dictionary.txt file). The goal is to find all six-letter words that are built of two concatenated smaller words e.g.:
con + vex => convex
tail + or => tailor
we + aver => weaver
Of course, there may be some words inside the file that are not 6 letters long, but these can be easily sifted out using a simple method:
def cleanup_file
file_data = File.read('dictrionary.txt').split
file_data.reject! { |word| word.size < 6 }
end
But now comes the problem - how to find if the other strings in the array are made of two connected smaller words ?
[Edit]
Sample dictionary.txt file here
Thinking just in a pseudo code solution, but you should:
Iterate every line of the dictionary and store the words in 6 different arrays by the length of each word.
Make sure that all words are downcased, there are no duplicates and all the values are sorted, so later you could properly use .bsearch in the arrays.
Iterate the length-6 array (for example convex) and look for a match of the first character of the current word in the length-1 array (c for the given example) and in the length-5 array (onvex). If there's a match, save the words.
Then keep looking in the length-2 and length-4 arrays for matches (co and nvex correspondingly) and save a match.
Finally, look both parts of the string in the length-3 array (con and vex) and save any match
Look for the next 6 characters string until you've finished.
Most likely there are better ways to solve this, like in the first iteration inserting each word in its corresponding array using .bsearch_index to sort and not inserting duplicates in the same iteration, but most of the workload is going to be in the 2nd iteration and binary searches work in O(log n) time, so I guess it should work quick enough.
Suppose the dictionary is as follows.
dictionary = [
"a", "abased", "act", "action", "animal", "ape", "apeman",
"art", "assertion", "bar", "barbed", "barhop", "based", "be",
"become", "bed", "come", "hop", "ion", "man"
]
I assume that, like most dictionaries, dictionary is sorted.
First compute the following hash.
by_len = dictionary.each_with_object({}) do |w,h|
len = w.length
(h[len] ||= []) << w if len < 7
end
#=> {1=>["a"],
# 6=>["abased", "action", "animal", "apeman", "barbed",
# "barhop", "become"],
# 3=>["act", "ape", "art", "bar", "bed", "hop", "ion", "man"],
# 5=>["based"],
# 2=>["be"],
# 4=>["come"]}
Each key is a word length (1-6) and each value is an array of words from dictionary whose length is the value of the key.
Next I will define a helper function that returns true or false depending on whether a given array of words (list) contains a given word (word).
def found?(list, word)
w = list.bsearch { |w| w >= word }
w && w == word
end
For example:
found?(by_len[3], "art")
#=> true
found?(by_len[3], "any")
#=> false
See Array#bsearch.
We now extract the words of interest:
by_len[6].select { |w| (1..5).any? { |i|
found?(by_len[i], w[0,i]) && found?(by_len[6-i], w[i..-1]) } }
#=> ["abased", "action", "apeman", "barbed", "barhop", "become"]

Rails BigDecimal JSON output for Highcharts

I'm trying to make an api endpoint to output BigDecimal numbers as "numbers" in JSON. HighCharts requires any numeral value to be a number instead of a string. But I couldn't make a JSON object with the BigDecimal numbers shown as real numbers, not strings or anything else.
I need to generate something like this:
[[123000, 235436.352642],[127000, 9434.2352663], ... ]
There are many answers to this question on the web like this, but all of them suggest to convert the BigDecimal to Float via .to_f. And that, doesn't make any sense, cause we use decimals to have an exact precision which is not the case with Float.
You could "round" those numbers, to "numbers"
v = BigDecimal("7.176231231231231")
sprintf("%.6f", v)
# => "7.176231"
And you could also string truncate onto the function to get more specific, rounded numbers(might be useful when using this data for graphs).
v = BigDecimal("7.176231231231231")
sprintf("%.6f", v)
# => "7.176231"
sprintf("%.6f", v.truncate(2))
# => "7.170000"

without iterating an array, How to check a value exisitng inside the loop or not?

i have an array.
key_values =
["loc=june 1 2 jubli's, Captain tim, BI",
"locSlug=june-1-",
"-2-jubli's_Captain-tim_BI",
"lat=29.404153823852539",
"long=-54.88862609863281",
"status=7",
"pg=10",
"pgsz=15",
"sprefix=/kings_search",
"city=Captain tim",
"neighborhood=june 1 ",
" 2 jubli's",
"state_id=BI",
"county_fips=15045"]
This is my array. I am iterating this till the end , when the current value includes "locSlug" or "neighborhood" then i am checking for next value whether it has "=" or not . if it has "=" then i am not doing anything, otherwise i am adding next value and my current value with "&". But i dont want to iterate this for whole values. How can i do it without iterating the whole loop.I have written code like as shown below.
def check_for_special_character(key_values)
key_values.each_with_index do |val,index|
unless index+1 >= key_values.length
if (val.include?("locSlug=") || val.include?("neighborhood=")) && !key_values[index+1].include?("=")
key_values[index] = [val, key_values[index+1]].join("&")
key_values.delete_at(index+1)
end
end
end
end
The above code is working fine but i dont want to do in this way. need your suggestions.
If u need any further clarifications please ask.
Convert Array to Hash, Then Access By Key
There may be a more efficient way of doing this if you have access to the original data object (e.g. a cookie, JSON string, or database query). However, assuming that you can't access the source data directly for some reason, or that you're just working with an array that you can't otherwise control, you can convert your data into a Ruby Hash object and then access the values you want by key. For example:
# Split your array elements on "=", and then convert the resulting array of
# arrays to a hash so you can return values by key. You need to have some
# sort of guard in place for sub-arrays that don't have exactly two elements.
hash = key_values.map { |e| e.split ?= }.select { |a| a.size.eql? 2 }.to_h
hash.fetch 'locSlug'
#=> "june-1-"
hash.fetch 'neighborhood'
#=> "june 1 "
The string you are retrieving from the cookie looks like this:
str = "loc=june 1 2 jubli's, Captain tim, BI&locSlug=june-1-&-2-jubli's_Capta"\
"in-tim_BI&lat=29.404153823852539&long=-54.88862609863281&status=7&pg=10"\
"&pgsz=15&sprefix=/kings_search&city=Captain tim&neighborhood=june 1 & 2"\
" jubli's&state_id=BI&county_fips=15045"
As you can see, & is used as both, a delimiter and a regular character:
"loc=june 1 2 jubli's, Captain tim, BI&locSlug=june-1-&-2-jubli's_Captain-..."
# ^ ^
# delimiter character
In other words: your string is broken. You should fix this by writing a properly escaped string to the cookie in the first place. For a query string, you'd use percent encoding. It should look like this:
str = "loc=june+1++2+jubli%27s%2C+Captain+tim%2C+BI&locSlug=june-1-%26-2-jubli"\
"%27s_Captain-tim_BI&lat=29.404153823852539&long=-54.88862609863281&stat"\
"us=7&pg=10&pgsz=15&sprefix=%2Fkings_search&city=Captain+tim&neighborhoo"\
"d=june+1+%26+2+jubli%27s&state_id=BI&county_fips=15045"
This can be parsed via:
Rack::Utils.parse_query(str)
#=> {
# "loc"=>"june 1 2 jubli's, Captain tim, BI",
# "locSlug"=>"june-1-&-2-jubli's_Captain-tim_BI",
# "lat"=>"29.404153823852539",
# "long"=>"-54.88862609863281",
# "status"=>"7",
# "pg"=>"10",
# "pgsz"=>"15",
# "sprefix"=>"/kings_search",
# "city"=>"Captain tim",
# "neighborhood"=>"june 1 & 2 jubli's",
# "state_id"=>"BI",
# "county_fips"=>"15045"
# }

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

Each statement inside another each malfunctions?

I'm coding a Google sketchup plugin with Ruby, and I faced a little problem. I have an array containing descriptions of every point like:
desc_array = ["anna ", "anna 45", "anna689", "anna36", "anna 888", "anna ",...]
The array containing every point's coordinates is:
todraw_su = [
[-16.23317, -16.530533, 99.276929],
[-25.142825, -12.476601, 99.237414],
[-32.716122, -5.92341, 99.187951],
[-38.964589, 4.181119, 99.182358],
[-41.351064, 18.350418, 99.453714],
[-40.797511, 33.987519, 99.697253],
...
]
I want to add a text in Google sketchup for each point. According to the Sketchup API this can be done by:
Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_text "This is the text", [x, y, z]
I tried:
todraw_su.each {|todraw| desc_array.each {|desc| Sketchup.active_model.entities.add_text desc,todraw }}
But, it gave me something unexpected, as it returns all the elements in desc_array for every element in to_draw.
What I want is every element in desc_array for every element in to_draw.
[desc_array, todraw_su].transpose.each do |desc, coord|
# ...
end
You can also do this with #zip like...
desc_array.zip(todraw_su).each do |desc, coord|
# ...
end
With the #zip technique, the result will always have the first array's dimension, with the second truncated or nil-padded as needed. This may or may not be TRT. Transpose will raise IndexError in that case.

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