Ruby: select a hash from inside an array

Question

I have the following array:

response = [{\"label\"=>\"cat\", \"name\"=>\"kitty\", \"id\"=>189955}, {\"label\" => \"dog\", \"name\"=>\"rex\", \"id\         


        

Answer 1

Try:

response.select { |x| x["label"] == "cat" }

Answer 2

response.find {|x| x['label'] == 'cat' } #=> {"label"=>"cat", "name"=>"kitty", "id"=>189955}