Convert two Arrays into one Hash (Ruby)

jmrepetti (Juan Matias) — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 18:58:36 GMT

This is a way to merge two arrays into one hash.
The returned hash will have the same quantity of elements that the first(self) array.

class Array
def merge_into_hash(anArray)
tmp,hash = anArray.dup,{}
self.each {|key| hash[key] = tmp.shift}
hash
end
end

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Convert two Arrays into one Hash (Ruby)