Sorting an array basedon two attributes of objects

Ruby
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 ??

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 21:48:17 +0900, senthil
[email protected] wrote:

 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.

Is this what you had in mind?

sorted_employees = employees.sort_by { |e| [ e.salary, e.name ] }

-mental

3

I think you could try this:

results = person.sort_by { |p| [p.salary, p.name] }

That should sort by salary first, then name.

-Augie

4

On 26 Mrz., 14:48, senthil [email protected] wrote:

 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.

Try this: employees.sort_by { |employee| [employee.salary,
employee.name] }

Kind regards,
Florian G.