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Readable Rubyhash

Rubyists talk about being cutting edge but how many are using 1.9 in production? Time to convert those verbose 1.8 hashes in to symbolic, succinct 1.9 beauties!

Start file
{:a=>1,:b=>2,:c=>3}
End file
{
  a: 1,
  b: 2,
  c: 3
}

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1c1,5
< {:a=>1,:b=>2,:c=>3}
---
> {
>   a: 1,
>   b: 2,
>   c: 3
> }

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#95 Chris Maguire / @chriswmaguire - Score: 104 - 11/28/12 @ 15:01 
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#92 - Antonio Cormoranes / @anonymous_joe

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#94 - Alexander Berezovsky / @_a0b_

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#95 - Chris Maguire / @chriswmaguire

11/28/2012 at 03:01PM