Need to split arrays to sub arrays of specified size in Ruby
arr.each_slice(3).to_a
each_slice
returns an Enumerable, so if that's enough for you, you don't need to call to_a
.
In 1.8.6 you need to do:
require 'enumerator'
arr.enum_for(:each_slice, 3).to_a
If you just need to iterate, you can simply do:
arr.each_slice(3) do |x,y,z|
puts(x+y+z)
end
can also utilize this with a specific purpose:
((1..10).group_by {|i| i%3}).values #=> [[1, 4, 7, 10], [2, 5, 8], [3, 6, 9]]
in case you just want two partitioned arrays:
(1..6).partition {|v| v.even? } #=> [[2, 4, 6], [1, 3, 5]]
In Rails you can use method in_groups_of
which splits an array into groups of specified size
arr.in_groups_of(3) # => [[4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 4], [45, 11, nil]]
arr.in_groups_of(3, false) # => [[4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 4], [45, 11]]
Whereas method in_groups
splits an array into specified number of balanced groups
arr.in_groups(5) # => [[4, 5], [6, 7], [8, 4], [45, nil], [11, nil]]
arr.in_groups(5, false) # => [[4, 5], [6, 7], [8, 4], [45], [11]]