From: Jason Roelofs <jameskilton@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T00:47:44+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs Strings

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This is why Rails has HashWithIndifferentAccess, it internally treats
Symbols and Strings as the same.

Jason

On 12/21/06, Jeremy Wells <jwells@servalsystems.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Devin Mullins wrote:
> > matt wrote:
> >
> >> How do I know that I need to use :blah, and not some other symbol ?
> > Convention. You're just passing a Hash, and Rails cares about certain
> > key/value pairs in that Hash.
> I think that rails basically converts all hash keys into symbols
> automatically using Hash.symbolize_keys!, so you could pass a string or
> a symbol, but passing a symbol would be faster.
>
>

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