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I'm pretty new to Ruby (I come from a C++ background) and I have an array/hash of objects by their name but I'm having no luck when trying to access their variables. This is my attempt:

class Foo
attr_reader :num

def initialize(num)
    @num = num
end
end

foo_list = {}

foo_list["one"] = Foo.new("124")
foo_list["two"] = Foo.new("567")

foo_list.each do |foo|
p "#{foo.num}"              # ERROR: undefined method 'num'
end

I'm pretty sure there is an easy way of doing what I need, maybe not even using 'each' but something else?

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Just a word of advice, you can print out foo in the block to see what foo actually is. Also, Ruby documentation is pretty good. Just googling for "ruby hash" then looking up the each method, would have put you on the right track. ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Hash.html#method-i-each –  gylaz Jun 8 at 17:21
 
Or, if you let Ruby build its built-in documentation, ri Hash at the command-line would show the various methods. ri Hash.each would have given more information specific to each. –  the Tin Man Jun 8 at 18:06
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Shouldn't that be foo_list.each do |key, foo|, given that foo_list is a hash?

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OMG, I feel stupid, there goes an hour of my life on this. Thanks! –  Robert Risco Jun 8 at 17:08
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You might be looking for this:

foo_list.each do |key, value|
  puts "#{key}: #{value}"
end

Or you can extend your own example (foo would be an array here containing the key and value):

foo_list.each do |foo|
  puts "#{foo[0]}: #{foo[1]}"
end

Or you could do this without the each:

puts "one: #{foo_list["one"]}"
puts "two: #{foo_list["two"]}"

Have fun learning Ruby! :-)

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