Question

I have an array stored in a variable temp which looks like this:

temp.inspect output :

[#”Marlana Letelier”, “completed_at”=>nil, “status”=>”incomplete”, “name”=>nil, “lead_move_date”=>”2012-06-17 00:00:00”, “archive_time”=>nil, “stop_time”=>nil, “priority”=>”2”, “assigned_to_user_firstname”=>”Vanessa”, “notes”=>””, “created_by_id”=>nil, “id”=>”804005”, “assigned_to_id”=>”1”, “dn_email_id”=>nil, “outcomes_string”=>”other”, “lead_id”=>”101139”, “flavor”=>”PhonecallTask”, “stringified_parameters”=>”{\n’purpose’ => ‘continued contact attempt’,\n’phone_number’ => ‘361-946-9905’,\n}”, “created_at”=>”2011-12-21 13:29:07”, “start_time”=>”2012-04-04 17:00:00”}>]

temp.class specifies it as an array but temp[1] doesn’t output anything.

How do I access the elements ?

EDIT:
1) Temp either had nothing, 1 object or multiple objects
2) Check for nil
3) Get each object out
4) access the attributes

Answer 1

Although your inspect output looks wrong (I think you’re missing some text that came out in <...> tags) it looks like you have an array with a single item. Verify this assumption by outputting temp.length.

Since Arrays in Ruby are 0-indexed, try temp[0] or temp.first.