Rails - Jan 2007 - Creating arrays inside of hashes dynamically

I need to create a hash that has all of the objects of different
product_id in arrays indexed by product_id as a key.

This gets close:
fc.forecast_schedules.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h, x| h[x.product_id] [x]; h }

But the product_id in the hash only has the last forecast_schedule.
I''ve tried things like this:

fc.forecast_schedules.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h, x| h[x.product_id] <<
[x]; h }

But that gives me this error:
TypeError: can''t convert Array into Integer

How do I inform the hash key that holds something of the array instead
of Integer....

-dustin


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I figured out a solution using conditionals:

fc.forecast_schedules.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h, schedule|
	if h.has_key?(schedule.product_id)
		h[schedule.product_id] << schedule
	else
		h[schedule.product_id] = [schedule]
	end
	h}

My original using conditionals looked like this:
fc.forecast_schedules.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h, schedule|
	if h[schedule.product_id] == nil
		h[schedule.product_id] = [schedule]
	else
		h[schedule.product_id] << schedule
	end
	h}

Why does the first one work but not the other?

This hurts my head.

-dustin


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