http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7608687/how-can-i-index-duplicate-items-in-an-array

index-duplicates-in-array.rb

array = [
  {:name=>"site a", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/"}, 
  {:name=>"site b", :url=>"http://example.org/site/2/"}, 
  {:name=>"site c", :url=>"http://example.org/site/3/"}, 
  {:name=>"site d", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/"}, 
  {:name=>"site e", :url=>"http://example.org/site/2/"}, 
  {:name=>"site f", :url=>"http://example.org/site/6/"},
  {:name=>"site g", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/"}
]

array.inject([]) { |ar, it| 
    count_so_far = ar.count{|i| i[:url] == it[:url]}
    it[:index] = count_so_far+1
    ar << it
}
#=>
[
  {:name=>"site a", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/", :index=>1}, 
  {:name=>"site b", :url=>"http://example.org/site/2/", :index=>1}, 
  {:name=>"site c", :url=>"http://example.org/site/3/", :index=>1}, 
  {:name=>"site d", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/", :index=>2}, 
  {:name=>"site e", :url=>"http://example.org/site/2/", :index=>2}, 
  {:name=>"site f", :url=>"http://example.org/site/6/", :index=>1}, 
  {:name=>"site g", :url=>"http://example.org/site/1/", :index=>3}
]