Ruby : Associative Arrays

Question

Does Ruby on rails have associative arrays?

For eg:

   a = Array.new
   a[\"Peter\"] = 32
   a[\"Quagmire\"] = \'asdas\'

What is

Answer 1

Use hashes, here's some examples on how to get started (all of these do the same thing, just different syntax):

a = Hash.new
a["Peter"] = 32
a["Quagmire"] = 'asdas'

Or you could do:

a = {}
a["Peter"] = 32
a["Quagmire"] = 'asdas'

Or even a one liner:

a = {"Peter" => 32, "Quagmire" => 'gigity'}