Sorting a hash in Ruby by its value first then its key

Question

I am trying to sort a document based on the number of times the word appears then alphabetically by the words so when it is outputted it will look something like this.

Answer 1

Try this:

words = {'the' => 6,'we' => 7,'those' => 5,'have' => 3}

words.sort { |(x_k, x_v), (y_k, y_v)| [y_v, y_k] <=> [x_v, x_k]}
#=> [["we", 7], ["the", 6], ["those", 5], ["have", 3]]