Sorting a hash in Ruby by its value first then its key -

i trying sort document based on number of times word appears alphabetically words when outputted this.

unsorted: 'the', '6' 'we', '7' 'those', '5' 'have', '3'  sorted: 'we', '7' 'the', '6' 'those', '5' 'have', '3'

try this:

assuming:

a = {    'the' => '6',    'we' => '7',    'those' => '5',    'have' => '3',    'hav' => '3',    'haven' => '3' }

then after doing this:

b = a.sort_by { |x, y| [ -integer(y), x ] }

b this:

[   ["we", "7"],    ["the", "6"],    ["those", "5"],    ["hav", "3"],    ["have", "3"],    ["haven", "3"] ]

edited sort reverse frequencies.

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