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diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile index d09b8cde88..3f6e9b306d 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_overview.textile @@ -871,6 +871,19 @@ Active Support backports +each_with_object+ from Ruby 1.9, which addresses that WARNING. Note that the item of the collection and the accumulator come in different order in +inject+ and +each_with_object+. +h4. +index_by+ + +The method +index_by+ generates a hash with the elements of an enumerable indexed by some key. + +It iterates through the collection and passes each element to a block. The element will be keyed by the value returned by the block: + +<ruby> +invoices.index_by(&:number) +# => {'2009-032' => <Invoice ...>, '2009-008' => <Invoice ...>, ...} +</ruby> + +WARNING. Keys should normally be unique. If the block returns the same value for different elements no collection is built for that key. The last item will win. + h3. Extensions to +Array+ h4. Accessing |