What is the best way to convert an array to a hash in Ruby

NOTE: For a concise and efficient solution, please see Marc-André Lafortune’s answer below. This answer was originally offered as an alternative to approaches using flatten, which were the most highly upvoted at the time of writing. I should have clarified that I didn’t intend to present this example as a best practice or an efficient … Read more

An unhandled lowlevel error occurred. The application logs may have details

This is because you haven’t set your secret key correctly. Double check your config/secrets.yml file: It should be something like this: production: secret_key_base: <%= ENV[“SECRET_KEY_BASE”] %> Then in your droplet, you can run bundle exec rake secret to get your secret key. There are options like dotenv which is a useful gem that loads the … Read more

Difference between map and collect in Ruby?

There’s no difference, in fact map is implemented in C as rb_ary_collect and enum_collect (eg. there is a difference between map on an array and on any other enum, but no difference between map and collect). Why do both map and collect exist in Ruby? The map function has many naming conventions in different languages. Wikipedia provides an overview: The map function originated in functional programming languages but is today supported (or may be … Read more

What does the Ruby method ‘to_sym’ do?

to_sym converts a string to a symbol. For example, “a”.to_sym becomes :a. It’s not specific to Rails; vanilla Ruby has it as well. It looks like in some versions of Ruby, a symbol could be converted to and from a Fixnum as well. But irb from Ruby 1.9.2-p0, from ruby-lang.org, doesn’t allow that unless you add your own to_sym method to Fixnum. I’m … Read more

How to Uninstall RVM? [duplicate]

It’s easy; just do the following: or And don’t forget to remove the script calls in the following files: ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile ~/.profile And maybe others depending on whatever shell you’re using.