I ran into a case where I needed to merge an array of hashes and was disappointed that I couldn''t use ActiveSupport''s Enumerable#sum extension solely for want of Hash#+ ... so I added it as an alias to Hash#merge for fun. Given: a = {:a => 1, :b => 2} b = {:b => 3, :c => 4} c = {:a => 2, :d => 5} d = [a, b, c] ... what was previously written: a.merge(b) d.inject {|sum, h| sum.merge(h)} ... can now be written: a + b d.sum #=> {:a => 2, :b => 3, :c => 4, :d => 5} My favorite usage, though, reads something like: def create_foo_with_defaults(options = {}) defaults = {...} Foo.create!(defaults + options) end Ticket and patch (vs. r8062, with tests): http://dev.rubyonrails.org/ticket/10047 Please review and comment/+1. Thanks! --j --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Core" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-core@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-core-unsubscribe@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-core?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---