How do I search within an array of hashes by hash

Question

I have an array of hashes, @fathers.

a_father = { "father" => "Bob", "age" =>  40 }
@fathers << a_father
a_father = { "father" => "David", "age" =>  32 }
@fathers << a_father
a_father = { "father" => "Batman", "age" =>  50 }
@fathers << a_father 

How can I search this array and return an array of hashes for which a block returns true?

For example:

@fathers.some_method("age" > 35) #=> array containing the hashes of bob and batman

Thanks.

Answer 1

if your array looks like

array = [
 {:name => "Hitesh" , :age => 27 , :place => "xyz"} ,
 {:name => "John" , :age => 26 , :place => "xtz"} ,
 {:name => "Anil" , :age => 26 , :place => "xsz"} 
]

And you Want To know if some value is already present in your array. Use Find Method

array.find {|x| x[:name] == "Hitesh"}

This will return object if Hitesh is present in name otherwise return nil

Answer 2

this will return first match

@fathers.detect {|f| f["age"] > 35 }

Answer 3

You're looking for Enumerable#select (also called find_all):

@fathers.select {|father| father["age"] > 35 }
# => [ { "age" => 40, "father" => "Bob" },
#      { "age" => 50, "father" => "Batman" } ]

Per the documentation, it "returns an array containing all elements of [the enumerable, in this case @fathers] for which block is not false."