From: prijutme4ty@...
Date: 2015-11-19T01:38:07+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:71569] [Ruby trunk - Bug #10984] Hash#contain? to check whether hash contains other hash

Issue #10984 has been updated by Ilya Vorontsov.

Tracker changed from Feature to Bug

> Akira Tanaka wrote:
> 
> ```
> % ruby -e '
> class Hash
>   def <=(other)
>     self.merge(other) == other
>   end
>   def >=(other)
>     self.merge(other) == self
>   end
>   def <(other)
>     self <= other && self != other
>   end
>   def >(other)
>     self >= other && self != other
>   end
> end
> ```

This implies that

```ruby
{a: 1, b: 2} <= {a: 1, b: 3}
{a: 1, b: 3} <= {a: 1, b: 2}
```

Is that expected? This breaks the main use-case in testing method results.

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Bug #10984: Hash#contain? to check whether hash contains other hash
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/10984#change-54949

* Author: Olivier Lacan
* Status: Closed
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: Akira Tanaka
* ruby -v: 
* Backport: 
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Comparing hashes seems like a common practice but there currently isn't a method to ask a 
hash instance whether it includes another hash instance.

The most intuitive method to reach for would be `Hash#include?` but it is in fact an alias to `Hash#has_key?`

What I'm looking for can be achieved with:

~~~
class Hash
  def contain?(other)
    self.merge(other) == self
  end
end
~~~

Here's a simple demo of `#contain?` in use:

~~~
{ a: true, b: false }.contain?({ a: true})
# => true

{ a: true, b: false }.contain?({ b: false})
# => true

{ a: true, b: false }.contain?({ a: false})
# => false

{ a: true, b: false }.contain?({ c: true})
# => false
~~~

One important note is that this method is *not checking for nested hash matches*.
This may need to be addressed when the parameters include a nested hash perhaps.

Thanks to Terence Lee's help, nobu created a patch for this feature last year. 
I've only modified the name of the method from [his original patch](https://gist.github.com/nobu/dfe8ba14a48fc949f2ed) and attached it to this issue.

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Hash#contain_.patch (2.22 KB)


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