Comprehensive Ruby Programming

Converting a hash into an array

Next, we are going to see how to convert a hash into an array. We can leverage the built-in Ruby array conversion method to accomplish this for us, as you can see here:

Array(people) 

Ruby has a number of data type conversion methods. For example, to convert a hash to an array you could use either Array(people) or people.to_a. The differences are subtle and for the majority of cases, either option will work for your needs.

The output of this code is as follows:

Taking a look at our newly rendered array, each key/value pair has been converted to an array, nested inside one large array that contains all of the ...