Is there a Ruby equivalent to PHP's extract?

Question

I can create a block that will extract hash elements and turn them into local variables, but I\'m wondering if a native method already exists. Something like this:

Answer 1

You can use the each method to iterate through each key=>value pair:

{ :foo => 'bar', :foo2 => 'bar2' }.each do |key, value|
  print key,"\t",value,"\n"
end

Outputs:

 foo     bar
 foo2    bar2