Question

I’m working with an app (Ruby 1.9.2, Rails 3) and an API and need interface an API given certain param values.

What’s the best way to break this:

bedrooms: 3 - 7
bathrooms: 1 - 8
sqft: 1000 - 8000
price: $100000 - $800000

Into this:

bedrooms_min = 3
bedrooms_max = 7
bathrooms_min = 1
bathrooms_max = 8
sqft_min = 1000
sqft_max = 8000
price_min = 100000
price_max = 800000

Answer 1

price_input = "$100000 - $800000"
price_min, price_max = price_input.gsub(/[^\d-]/, '').split('-', 2).map(&:to_i)
price_min # 100000
price_max # 800000

So, basically we remove everything except digits and ‘-‘ sign that separates two values and then split string in two by this separator.