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Ruby Ruby Collections Ruby Hashes Ruby Hash Creation

Ali Amirazizi
Ali Amirazizi
16,087 Points
Posted by Ali Amirazizi
Ali Amirazizi
16,087 Points

What is the difference between using hash symbols and equal sign for creating hashes.

Jason slightly explained this but I couldn't quite understand.

Ali Amirazizi
Ali Amirazizi
16,087 Points
Ali Amirazizi
Ali Amirazizi
16,087 Points

Thanks for the link. The difference seems to be mostly preference. There are some minor differences if you are using older versions of Ruby(older than 1.9).

1 Answer

thisandthat
thisandthat
3,220 Points

Check this StackOverflow answer out: http://stackoverflow.com/a/8675314