From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2005-10-12T05:23:25+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby noob with a coming from Python question

On Oct 11, 2005, at 3:16 PM, ES wrote:

> def map_from(file)
>   Hash[*File.readlines(file).map {|line| line.split '='}.flatten]
> end

Pretty much the same thing, but this should allow you to leave of  
some strips later, I hope:

def hash_from_file( file_name )
   Hash[*File.read(file_name).split("\n").map { |line| line.split 
("=") }.flatten]
end

James Edward Gray II