ruby: sum corresponding members of two or more arrays

Question

I've got two (or more) arrays with 12 integers in each (corresponding to values for each month). All I want is to add them together so that I've got a single array with summed values for each month. Here's an example with three values: [1,2,3] and [4,5,6] => [5,7,9]

The best I could come up with was:

[[1,2,3],[4,5,6]].transpose.map{|arr| arr.inject{|sum, element| sum+element}} #=> [5,7,9]

Is there a better way of doing this? It just seems such a basic thing to want to do.

question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2682411/ruby-sum-corresponding-members-of-two-or-more-arrays

Answer 1

Here's the transpose version Anurag suggested:

[[1,2,3], [4,5,6]].transpose.map {|x| x.reduce(:+)}

This will work with any number of component arrays. reduce and inject are synonyms, but reduce seems to me to more clearly communicate the code's intent here...