Question

My code looks like this:

hash = MyModel.count(:group => 'id', :conditions => 'bla = "bla"')

The returned Hash has keys that are strings. I want them to be ints. I know it would be possible to convert the Hash manually using something like a map construct.

Edit:

Thanks for the responses. Have realised it was a json conversion process that was turning the ids into Strings and rails does in fact use the Fixnum as one might expect.

Answer 1

When I use your code I get integer keys (rails 3.07), what’s the column type of id?

If you want to do it manually:

new_hash = hash.inject({}){|h,a| h[a.first.to_i] = a.last; h}