Question

My setup: Rails 3.0.9, Ruby 1.9.2

I have a global constant defined

TYPES = { "visa" => "Visa", "master" => "MasterCard" }

I wish to invert the values for the select method, I know it sounds silly but there is another part of my code that needs this functionality, so I’m trying to figure out if it is possible. Here’s what I have so far but didn’t work

<%= f.select :card_type, TYPES.each { |key, value| [value, key] } %>

Answer 1

Use the invert method built-in to Hash:

TYPES = { "visa" => "Visa", "master" => "MasterCard" }

TYPES.invert
# => {"Visa"=>"visa", "MasterCard"=>"master"}

So:

<%= f.select :card_type, TYPES.invert %>

Notes:

1. Why not use symbols instead of strings for the key.. :master instead of "master"
2. The values of original TYPES will be used as the keys for the invert‘ed Hash, so ensure that your values are all unique.