Friday, October 6th, 2006
Randomizing an array in Ruby
Ruby's Array class has no method to randomize the contents of an array. Of course, Array can easily be extended to include this functionality. And like anything else in Ruby, there's more than one way to do it. Here's one way:
class Array
def randomize
arr=self.dup
self.collect { arr.slice!(rand(arr.length)) }
end
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