From: Jimmy Kofler <koflerjim@...>
Date: 2008-02-16T22:51:33+09:00
Subject: Re: recursive merge for hash

> M.W. Mitchell wrote:
> Thanks. But the only problem with that is, the overriding hash will
> completely destroy *all* of the values in the original. So if I want
> to just override one value, I get only one value. In this example,
> "Sam" is lost:
> 
> first = {
>   :data=>{
>     :name=>{
>       :first=>'Sam',
>       :middle=>'I',
>       :last=>'am'
>     }
>   }
> }
> 
> second={
>   :data=>{
>     :name=>{
>       :middle=>'you',
>       :last=>'are'
>     }
>   }
> }
> all_new = first.merge(second)
> 
> puts all_new.inspect


How about Hash#deep_merge, http://snippets.dzone.com/posts/show/4706 ?

Cheers,
j.k.

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