Turning a Hash of Arrays into an Array of Hashes in Ruby

Question

We have the following datastructures:

{:a => [\"val1\", \"val2\"], :b => [\"valb1\", \"valb2\"], ...}

And I want to turn that into

Answer 1

This will work assuming all the arrays in the original hash are the same size:

hash_array = hash.first[1].map { {} }
hash.each do |key,arr|
  hash_array.zip(arr).each {|inner_hash, val| inner_hash[key] = val}
end