This post explains a simple code snibbet I use convert a Rails-ready select input array into a hash.
PRIVACY_LEVELS = [ ["Private",10], ["Community",20], ["Public",30] ]
The above code is a constant defined as an array with three elements, and each element is itself an array. Rails can use this to construct an HTML select input - sweet!
What if I want to access the first element of each sub-array?
I can do that! I create a new method in a helper that does the conversion for me:
def privacy_hash Hash[ *PRIVACY_LEVELS.flatten].invert end
This is a quality Ruby code expressiveness example!