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Ruby 1.9 hashes

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Start file

{
  :a => 1,
  :b => 2,
  :c => 3
}

End file

{
  a: 1,
  b: 2,
  c: 3
}

View Diff

2,4c2,4
<   :a => 1,
<   :b => 2,
<   :c => 3
---
>   a: 1,
>   b: 2,
>   c: 3

Solutions by @MC88686523:

Created by: @jamesconroyfinn Tweet

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#184 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:24PM

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#>242 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:23PM

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#>280 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:22PM

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#>299 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:21PM

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#>326 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:19PM

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#>347 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:18PM

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#>381 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:17PM

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#>387 - MC / @MC88686523

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#>393 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:09PM

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#>401 - MC / @MC88686523

03/25/2023 at 04:09PM