Ruby access hash element

Question

I have the following hash:

{\"title\"=>\"ga:browser=Firefox\", \"dimensions\"=>[{:browser=>\"Firefox\"}], \"metrics\"=>[{:pageviews=>25474}], \"id         


        

Answer 1

Well, you have a hashmap (not an array) which maps the key "metrics" to an array. That array contains a hash as its only element. And that hash maps the key :pageviews to the value 25474. So to get that value you can do:

the_hash["metrics"][0][:pageviews]

This assumes that the hash with the :pageviews key will always be at position 0 in the array, which the key "metrics" is mapped to.