Group Hash by values in ruby

Question

I have a hash in ruby which looks something like this:

{
  \"admin_milestones\"=>\"1\",
  \"users_milestones\"=>\"0\",
  \"admin_goals\"=>\"1\",
  \         


        

Answer 1

You should use group_by on the keys arrays and use the value as the grouping element:

h1 = {
  "admin_milestones"=>"1",
  "users_milestones"=>"0",
  "admin_goals"=>"1",
  "users_goals"=>"0", 
  "admin_tasks"=>"1", 
  "users_tasks"=>"0",
  "admin_messages"=>"1",
  "users_messages"=>"0",
  "admin_meetings"=>"1",
  "users_meetings"=>"0"
}

# group_by on the keys, then use the value from the hash as bucket
h2 = h1.keys.group_by { |k| h1[k] }

puts h2.inspect

Returns a hash from value to array of keys:

{
    "1" => [
        [0] "admin_milestones",
        [1] "admin_goals",
        [2] "admin_tasks",
        [3] "admin_messages",
        [4] "admin_meetings"
    ],
    "0" => [
        [0] "users_milestones",
        [1] "users_goals",
        [2] "users_tasks",
        [3] "users_messages",
        [4] "users_meetings"
    ]
}