hoodwink.d enhanced

Thu Aug 25

Transform hashes into weighted arrays

module Weighted
  def to_a 
    inject([]) do |array, (key, weight)|
      array + ([key] * weight)
    end
  end
end

weights = *{:people => 2, :places => 3, 
            :things => 5}.extend(Weighted)

# => [:people, :people, :places, :places, 
#     :places, :things, :things, :things, 
#     :things, :things]
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