From: Bob Showalter <showaltb@...>
Date: 2007-09-13T04:02:22+09:00
Subject: Re: Merge an array of hashes

On 9/12/07, cleaner416 <cleaner416@gmail.com> wrote:
> For some reason I can't get my head wrapped around this trivial
> exercise.  I have an array of hashes like so
>
> a = [ { :some_key => :some_value }, { :another_key
> => :another_value } ]
>
> And I would like to flatten it to single hash in one line so I get
>
> { :some_key => :some_value, :another_key => :another_value }

  Hash[*a.collect {|h| h.to_a}.flatten]