How to sum properties of the objects within an array in Ruby

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Published on 2012-06-30T09:12:24Z Indexed on 2012/06/30 9:15 UTC
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I understand that in order to sum array elements in Ruby one can use the inject method, i.e.

array = [1,2,3,4,5]; puts array.inject(0, &:+)

But how do I sum the properties of objects within an object array e.g.

There's an array of objects and each object has a property "cash" for example. So I want to sum their cash balances into one total. Something like...

array.cash.inject(0, &:+) (but this doesn't work)

I realise I could probably make a new array composed only of the property cash and sum this, but I'm looking for a cleaner method if possible!

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