Sorting an array based on two attributes of objects

Rails
1

Hi all,
I want to sort the objects of array based on two attributes.I want
sort an employee class based on his salary and name , so that if two
person has same salary it should be sorted with name.
Lets say for example the employee objects has following name and
salary.

     name      salary
       d        100
       c        200
       b        50
       a        100


 so in this case the result which i expect is

     name      salary
       c        50
       a        100
       d        100
       b        200

Note:In the above example for salary 100 the sorting is done
alphabetically, but initially(before sorting) ‘d’ came first and then
‘a’ came.so basically i want to sort the array with more than one order.
Can any one help me to solve it ??

2

senthil wrote:

       b        50

Note:In the above example for salary 100 the sorting is done
alphabetically, but initially(before sorting) ‘d’ came first and then
‘a’ came.so basically i want to sort the array with more than one order.
Can any one help me to solve it ??

Use sort_by and have it return an array of the two objects you want
sorted:

[26]irb
irb(main):001:0> myarray = [{:name => “d”, :salary => 100}, {:name =>
“c”, :salary => 200}, {:name => “a”, :salary => 100}]
=> [{:salary=>100, :name=>“d”}, {:salary=>200, :name=>“c”},
{:salary=>100, :name=>“a”}]
irb(main):002:0> myarray.sort_by {|h| [h[:salary], h[:name]] }
=> [{:salary=>100, :name=>“a”}, {:salary=>100, :name=>“d”},
{:salary=>200, :name=>“c”}]

–
Michael W.

3

On Mar 26, 2007, at 8:50 AM, senthil wrote:

       c        200
       b        200

Note:In the above example for salary 100 the sorting is done
alphabetically, but initially(before sorting) ‘d’ came first and then
‘a’ came.so basically i want to sort the array with more than one
order.
Can any one help me to solve it ??

[ [‘d’,100], [‘c’,200], [‘b’,50], [‘a’,100] ].sort_by {|ns|
[ ns.last, ns.first ]}
=> [[“b”, 50], [“a”, 100], [“d”, 100], [“c”, 200]]

An array compares on its elements.

-Rob

Rob B. http://agileconsultingllc.com
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