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Sort strings and numbers in Ruby

I have an array of place objects, each with a name (unique) and number (non-unique). Is there a simple way to use sort_by to first sort by number and then (within each number) by name?

I know I can write a custom block for sort, but if this is possible, it’d be even easier!

Answer 1

Not sure if this is what you mean by “custom block” but it seems pretty simple to me:

places.sort_by { |place| [place.number, place.name] }