How to count identical string elements in a Ruby array

Question

I have the following Array = [\"Jason\", \"Jason\", \"Teresa\", \"Judah\", \"Michelle\", \"Judah\", \"Judah\", \"Allison\"]

How do I produce a count for

Answer 1

This works.

arr = ["Jason", "Jason", "Teresa", "Judah", "Michelle", "Judah", "Judah", "Allison"]
result = {}
arr.uniq.each{|element| result[element] = arr.count(element)}