From: vaine@... (Ville Aine)
Date: 2004-01-14T00:01:41+09:00
Subject: Re: efficient way to get the first found (or a random) key/value of a large hash

David Garamond <lists@zara.6.isreserved.com> wrote in message news:<40025921.4090603@zara.6.isreserved.com>...

> # is there a #pairs method which returns [[k1,v1], [k2,v2], ...} or
> # something similar?

Hash#to_a does just that:

irb(main):003:0> {:a => 1, :b => 2}.to_a
=> [[:a, 1], [:b, 2]]