Thank you, Alex. I appreciate your help. Best regards, Bill ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Young" <alex@blackkettle.org> To: <rails@lists.rubyonrails.org> Sent: 2006-03-31 11:40 AM Subject: Re: [Rails] '=>' : Ruby or Rails? > Bill Walton wrote: > > I'm trying to find an explanation of the difference between '=' and > > '=>'. I thought a good first step would be finding out whether this is > > a Ruby or a Rails construct. Then I'd dig in before bothering the > > list. No joy at step 1. Can anybody point me to the right documentation? > It's Ruby. > > In brief, '=' is a general assignment, while '=>' is specifically for > key-value relationships in hashes. > > Theres some documentation here: > http://www.rubycentral.com/book/intro.html > > -- > Alex > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > Rails@lists.rubyonrails.org > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails