Ruby convert Object to Hash

Question

Let\'s say I have a Gift object with @name = \"book\" & @price = 15.95. What\'s the best way to convert that to the Hash {na

Answer 1

You should override the inspect method of your object to return the desired hash, or just implement a similar method without overriding the default object behaviour.

If you want to get fancier, you can iterate over an object's instance variables with object.instance_variables