How to Find the minimum and maximum values in an array and hash Ruby with examples

These tutorials show you how to find out the minimum and maximum values from an array.

How to find the minimum and maximum values from a given ruby

There are multiple ways used to find the min and max of a given array.

One way, using min and max methods in the Ruby array Another way using the Enumerable minmax method

• Array.min: Returns Minimum value
• Array.max: Returns Maximum value
• Enumerable.minmax : It returns an array of two values[min,max], First value is min and second value is max.

Here is

numbers=[11, 9, 58, 80]
# returns minimum number in array
puts numbers.min #returns 9 

# returns maximum number in array
puts numbers.max #returns 80

# returns minimum and maximum number in array
puts numbers.minmax #returns 9 80

Output:

9
80
9
80

Find the minimum and maximum element from a Hash Object in Ruby?

The hash object contains keys and values.

If you want to find the min and max of a has values, How do you find them.

hash provides min_by and max_by methods to find min and max methods.

Here is an example

employees = {'frank' => 5000, 'Andrew' => 6000, 'Rocky' => 10000}

puts employees.min_by { |name, salary| salary } #=> ["frank", 5000]
puts  employees.max_by { |name, salary| salary } #=> ["Rocky", 10000]

Output:

frank
5000
Rocky
10000

Conclusion

To Summarize, Learned Find min and max of the below objects

• Array
• Hash