I'd been trying to build a menu (in Camping and Markaby) using a hash.

Each item has 2 elements: a menu label and a URL, so a hash seemed right, but the '/' URL for 'Home' always appeared last (as you'd expect for a hash), so menu items appeared in the wrong order.

Using an array with each_slice does the job:

['Home', '/', 'Page two', 'two', 'Test', 'test'].each_slice(2) do|label,link| li {a label, :href => link} end 

Adding extra values for each menu item (e.g. like a CSS ID name) just means increasing the slice value. So, like a hash but with groups consisting of any number of items. Perfect.

So this is just to say thanks for inadvertently hinting at a solution!

I'd been trying to build a menu (in Camping and Markaby) using a hash.

Each item has 2 elements: a menu label and a URL, so a hash seemed right, but the '/' URL for 'Home' always appeared last (as you'd expect for a hash), so menu items appeared in the wrong order.

Using an array with each_slice does the job:

['Home', '/', 'Page two', 'two', 'Test', 'test'].each_slice(2) do|label,link| li {a label, :href => link} end 

Adding extra values for each menu item (e.g. like a CSS ID name) just means increasing the slice value. So, like a hash but with groups consisting of any number of items. Perfect.

So this is just to say thanks for inadvertently hinting at a solution!

Obvious, but worth stating: I suggest checking if the length of the array is divisible by the slice value.