From: "atraver@..." <atraver@...>
Date: 2006-09-28T02:05:09+09:00
Subject: Re: Accessing Nested Hashes Directly

Thanks for all the responses.

Here is the method I ended up with after looking over everything, just
in case this topic is searched for in the future:

  def get_value(object, *path)
    for item in path
      break unless object
      object = object ? object[item.to_s] : nil
    end

    return object.kind_of?(String) ? object.strip : object
  end

This might be a little more verbose than some of the solutions (also,
Ross, your "inject" solution didn't seem to work out although I'm sure
it would with some tweaking). However, it ends up doing exactly what I
need it to do: get the value or return nil, in a quick-and-dirty way.

-Adam