From: Ara.T.Howard@...
Date: 2004-09-09T04:25:06+09:00
Subject: Re: using a hash in eval

On Thu, 9 Sep 2004, Florian Weber wrote:

> hi!
>
> is there a better way to do this:
>
> options = <<-END_OF_OPTIONS
> 	#{options.inspect}
> END_OF_OPTIONS
> options.gsub!("\\\"", "'")
>
> module_eval <<-"end_eval", __FILE__, __LINE__
>   def foo
>     some_method_which_expects_a_hash(#{options})
>   end
> end_eval
>
> i guess iterating over each key and value and writing it 'by hand' is
> the only way, right?
>
> thanks!
>
> ciao!
> flroian

    some_method_which_expects_a_hash(YAML::load("#{ YAML::dump options }"))

or even

    some_method_which_expects_a_hash(Marshal::load("#{ Marshal::dump options }"))

maybe.

-a
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