[Rails] Re: A dumb question on extracting a value from a hash

[Ezra Zygmuntowicz]

Eric-

	Ahh your right. Ok well this will work:

@comm_type[0][:id]

Cheers-
-Ezra

On Jan 31, 2006, at 4:09 PM, Eric Sloane wrote:

> Hi Ezra,
> Nope - I tried that (and a few other combinations) @comm_type.id is  
> returning the id of the hash not the id within the hash. I'd have  
> expected to get the attribute 4 too, but noooo
> Eric.
>
> Ezra Zygmuntowicz wrote:
>> On Jan 31, 2006, at 3:51 PM, Eric Sloane wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> I have the following code fragment;
>>>
>>> @comm_type = Communication.find_by_sql('select id from   
>>> communication_types where upper(description) = "EMAIL"')
>>>
>>> Which results in
>>> >> @comm_type
>>> => [#<Communication:0x39a0f60 @attributes={"id"=>"4"}>]
>>>
>>> But when I try to test an ActiveREcord against this it doesn't work;
>>>
>>> @recipient.communications.each do |comm|
>>>     if comm.communications_type_id == @comm_type
>>            if comm.communications_type_id == @comm_type.id
>>>         @email_address = comm.code
>>>     end
>>> end
>>>
>>> What do I need to write to get at that value in the hash. Sorry   
>>> it's such a dumb question :~(
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Eric.
>>>
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>> I think thats all your missing
>> Cheers-
>> -Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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-Ezra Zygmuntowicz
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