From: Joey Zhou Date: 2011-10-03T16:57:10+09:00 Subject: Re: Need some help with hashes, don't know what fails { what: 'text', who: 'Antonio', when: Time.now} is in fact { :what => 'text', :who => 'Antonio', :when => Time.now } the keys are symbols, not strings so you must puts value.has_key?(:what) -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.