Ruby array of hash. group_by and modify in one line

Question

I have an array of hashes, something like

[ {:type=>\"Meat\", :name=>\"one\"}, 
  {:type=>\"Meat\", :name=>\"two\"}, 
  {:type=>\"Fruit\", :n         


        

Answer 1

array.group_by{|h| h[:type]}.each{|_, v| v.replace(v.map{|h| h[:name]})}
# => {"Meat"=>["one", "two"], "Fruit"=>["four"]}

Following steenslag's suggestion:

array.group_by{|h| h[:type]}.each{|_, v| v.map!{|h| h[:name]}}
# => {"Meat"=>["one", "two"], "Fruit"=>["four"]}