Using Tuples in Ruby?

Question

Does anyone use tuples in Ruby? If so, how may one implement a tuple? Ruby hashes are nice and work almost as well, but I\'d really like to see something like the Tuple clas

Answer 1

Based on the fact that you talk about hashes and . notation I'm going to assume you mean a different kind of tuple than the (1. "a") sort. You're probably looking for the Struct class. eg:

Person = Struct.new(:name, :age)
me = Person.new
me.name = "Guy"
me.age =  30