How to build a Ruby hash out of two equally-sized arrays?

Question

I have two arrays

a = [:foo, :bar, :baz, :bof]

and

b = [\"hello\", \"world\", 1, 2]

I want

Answer 1

Just wanted to point out that there's a slightly cleaner way of doing this:

h = a.zip(b).to_h # => {:foo=>"hello", :bar=>"world", :baz=>1, :bof=>2}

Have to agree on the "I love Ruby" part though!