http://snippets.dzone.com/posts Sat, 26 Jul 2008 22:32:26 GMT DZone Snippets: pick code http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1167 Adds a handy function that lets you randomly pick <i>n</i> elements from an array. <br /> <br /><code> <br />class Array <br /> # If +number+ is greater than the size of the array, the method <br /> # will simply return the array itself sorted randomly <br /> def randomly_pick(number) <br /> sort_by{ rand }.slice(0...number) <br /> end <br />end <br /></code> Tue, 17 Jan 2006 05:17:11 GMT http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/1167 canadaduane (Duane Johnson)