How to change Hash values?

Question

I\'d like to replace each value in a hash with value.some_method.

For example, for given a simple hash:

{\"a\" => \"b\",         


        

Answer 1

You may want to go a step further and do this on a nested hash. Certainly this happens a fair amount with Rails projects.

Here's some code to ensure a params hash is in UTF-8:

  def convert_hash hash
    hash.inject({}) do |h,(k,v)|
      if v.kind_of? String
        h[k] = to_utf8(v) 
      else
        h[k] = convert_hash(v)
      end
      h
    end      
  end    

  # Iconv UTF-8 helper
  # Converts strings into valid UTF-8
  #
  # @param [String] untrusted_string the string to convert to UTF-8
  # @return [String] your string in UTF-8
  def to_utf8 untrusted_string=""
    ic = Iconv.new('UTF-8//IGNORE', 'UTF-8')
    ic.iconv(untrusted_string + ' ')[0..-2]
  end