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Bug #12027

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Hash descendants are ignoring custom to_hash method

Added by zverok (Victor Shepelev) about 8 years ago. Updated about 8 years ago.

Status:
Rejected
Assignee:
-
Target version:
-
[ruby-core:73506]

Description

I'm not sure it is not intended, but feels really strange:

class A
  def to_hash
    {foo: 'bar'}
  end
end

class B < Hash
  def to_hash
    {foo: 'bar'}
  end
end

a = A.new
b = B.new

p({**a}) # => {foo: 'bar'}
p({**b}) # => {} -- ooops. Seems "internal" hash state is used
# therefore:
b['test'] = 1
p({**b}) # => wrong argument type String (expected Symbol) (TypeError)

What am I missing here?

Updated by nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada) about 8 years ago

  • Description updated (diff)
  • Status changed from Open to Rejected

Because b.is_a?(Hash) already.
to_hash is the method to pretend to be a Hash.

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