Question

I’ve got a hash of the format:

{key1 => [a, b, c], key2 => [d, e, f]}

and I want to end up with:

{ a => key1, b => key1, c => key1, d => key2 ... }

What’s the easiest way of achieving this?

I’m using Ruby on Rails.

UPDATE

OK I managed to extract the real object from the server log, it is being pushed via AJAX.

  Parameters: {"status"=>{"1"=>["1", "14"], "2"=>["7", "12", "8", "13"]}}

Answer 1

hash = {:key1 => ["a", "b", "c"], :key2 => ["d", "e", "f"]}

first variant

hash.map{|k, v| v.map{|f| {f => k}}}.flatten
#=> [{"a"=>:key1}, {"b"=>:key1}, {"c"=>:key1}, {"d"=>:key2}, {"e"=>:key2}, {"f"=>:key2}] 

or

hash.inject({}){|h, (k,v)| v.map{|f| h[f] = k}; h}
#=> {"a"=>:key1, "b"=>:key1, "c"=>:key1, "d"=>:key2, "e"=>:key2, "f"=>:key2} 

UPD

ok, your hash is:

hash = {"status"=>{"1"=>["1", "14"], "2"=>["7", "12", "8", "13"]}}
hash["status"].inject({}){|h, (k,v)| v.map{|f| h[f] = k}; h}
#=> {"12"=>"2", "7"=>"2", "13"=>"2", "8"=>"2", "14"=>"1", "1"=>"1"}