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outer_join.rb

This Ruby code snippet demonstrates retrieving posts associated with users and merging them into a user array. It maps over the users array, finds the corresponding post for each user based on user_id, and then merges the post data (if found) into the user’s hash, adding a title key with the post’s title or nil if no post is found.

Ruby code snippet

users = [
  { id: 1, name: 'Alice' },
  { id: 2, name: 'Bob' },
  { id: 3, name: 'Charlie' }
]
#=> [{id: 1, name: "Alice"}, {id: 2, name: "Bob"}, {id: 3, name: "Charlie"}]

posts = [
  { id: 1, user_id: 1, title: 'Post 1' },
  { id: 2, user_id: 2, title: 'Post 2' }
]
#=> [{id: 1, user_id: 1, title: "Post 1"}, {id: 2, user_id: 2, title: "Post 2"}]

users.map do |user|
  post = posts.find { |p| p[:user_id] == user[:id] }
  user.merge(post || { title: nil })
end
#=> 
[{id: 1, name: "Alice", user_id: 1, title: "Post 1"},
 {id: 2, name: "Bob", user_id: 2, title: "Post 2"},
 {id: 3, name: "Charlie", title: nil}]

Executed with Ruby 3.4.5.