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How to count identical string elements in a Ruby array

I have the following Array = ["Jason", "Jason", "Teresa", "Judah", "Michelle", "Judah", "Judah", "Allison"]

How do I produce a count for each identical element? 

Where:
"Jason" = 2, "Judah" = 3, "Allison" = 1, "Teresa" = 1, "Michelle" = 1?

or produce a hash Where:

Where: hash = { "Jason" => 2, "Judah" => 3, "Allison" => 1, "Teresa" => 1, "Michelle" => 1 }

Solution 
  • names = ["Jason", "Jason", "Teresa", "Judah", "Michelle", "Judah", "Judah", "Allison"]
counts = Hash.new(0)
names.each { |name| counts[name] += 1 }
# => {"Jason" => 2, "Teresa" => 1, ....