Creating Ruby Array with keys

Question

Ok so this is simple 101 but I am obviously doing something wrong. Can you advise how I create a params array like the below.

params = []
params[:geo_bounding_box][:top_left_lat] = @search.ne_lat
params[:geo_bounding_box][:top_left_lon] = @search.sw_lon
params[:geo_bounding_box][:bottom_right_lat] = @search.sw_lat
params[:geo_bounding_box][:bottom_right_lon] = @search.ne_lon

Hope you can advise!

Answer 1

Ruby hashes (not arrays) are initialised with {} not [] .

params = {}
params[:geo_bounding_box][:top_left_lat] = @search.ne_lat
...

Apart from that you're on the right track!

Answer 2

That's a Hash .

params = { 
  :geo_bounding_box => {
    :top_left_lat => @search.ne_lat,
    :top_left_lon => @search.sw_lon,
    :bottom_right_lat => @search.sw_lat,
    :bottom_right_lon => @search.me_lon
  }
}