Ruby : Associative Arrays

Question

Does Ruby on rails have associative arrays?

For eg:

   a = Array.new
   a[\"Peter\"] = 32
   a[\"Quagmire\"] = \'asdas\'

What is

Answer 1

Unlike PHP which conflates arrays and hashes, in Ruby (and practically every other language) they're a separate thing.

http://ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Hash.html

In your case it'd be:

a = {'Peter' => 32, 'Quagmire' => 'asdas'}

There are several freely available introductory books on ruby and online simulators etc.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/