Ruby: Easiest Way to Filter Hash Keys?

Question

I have a hash that looks something like this:

params = { :irrelevant => \"A String\",
           :choice1 => \"Oh look, another one\",
           :choi         


        

Answer 1

Put this in an initializer

class Hash
  def filter(*args)
    return nil if args.try(:empty?)
    if args.size == 1
      args[0] = args[0].to_s if args[0].is_a?(Symbol)
      self.select {|key| key.to_s.match(args.first) }
    else
      self.select {|key| args.include?(key)}
    end
  end
end

Then you can do

{a: "1", b: "b", c: "c", d: "d"}.filter(:a, :b) # =>  {a: "1", b: "b"}

or

{a: "1", b: "b", c: "c", d: "d"}.filter(/^a/)  # =>  {a: "1"}