Ruby multidimensional array

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Strictly speaking it is not possible to create multi dimensional arrays in Ruby. But it is possible to put an array in another array, which is almost the same as a multi dimensional array.

This is how you could create a 2D array in Ruby:

a = [[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]]

As stated in the comments, you could also use NArray which is a Ruby numerical array library:

require 'narray'
b = NArray[ [1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9] ]

Use a[i][j] to access the elements of the array. Basically a[i] returns the ‘sub array’ stored on position i of a and thus a[i][j] returns element number j from the array that is stored on position i.

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