Array to Hash Ruby

a = ["item 1", "item 2", "item 3", "item 4"]
h = Hash[*a] # => { "item 1" => "item 2", "item 3" => "item 4" }

That’s it. The * is called the splat operator.

One caveat per @Mike Lewis (in the comments): “Be very careful with this. Ruby expands splats on the stack. If you do this with a large dataset, expect to blow out your stack.”

So, for most general use cases this method is great, but use a different method if you want to do the conversion on lots of data. For example, @Łukasz Niemier (also in the comments) offers this method for large data sets:

h = Hash[a.each_slice(2).to_a]

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