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How to clone a Hash (in Ruby) and modify the cloned hash without affecting the original object
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# This is the ONLY way I've found that works | |
# All other suggested solutions (see below examples) don't actually work | |
# And as an extra bonus: this deep copies as well! | |
def deep_copy(o) | |
Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(o)) | |
end |
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def test(some_data) | |
some_data.each { |k, v| some_data.tap { |d| d[k].upcase! } } | |
end | |
blah = { :foo => 'bar' } | |
blah_clone = blah.clone # cloning the hash so we affect the clone and not the original | |
test(blah_clone) # cloned hash has been changed as expected => {:foo=>"BAR"} | |
blah # shouldn't be touched but => {:foo=>"BAR"} | |
######################################################################################### | |
# I've also tried the following (straight copied from a stack overflow answer which is supposed to work but doesn't)... | |
def copyhash(inputhash) | |
h = Hash.new | |
inputhash.each do |pair| | |
h.store(pair[0], pair[1]) | |
end | |
return h | |
end | |
original = { :key => 'foobar' } | |
test = copyhash(original) | |
test[:key].upcase! | |
test # => {:key=>"FOOBAR"} | |
original # => {:key=>"FOOBAR"} | |
######################################################################################### | |
# The following also doesn't work... | |
original = { :key => 'foobar' } | |
test = Hash[original] | |
original.object_id # => 2262 | |
test.object_id # => 2268 | |
test[:key].upcase! # => "FOOBAR" | |
test => {:key=>"FOOBAR"} | |
original => {:key=>"FOOBAR"} | |
######################################################################################### | |
# The following also doesn't work... | |
h0 = { "John"=>"Adams","Thomas"=>"Jefferson","Johny"=>"Appleseed"} | |
h1 = h0.inject({}) do |new, (name, value)| | |
new[name] = value; | |
new | |
end | |
h1["John"].upcase! | |
h0["John"] # => "ADAMS" | |
h1["John"] # => "ADAMS" | |
######################################################################################### | |
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Clone doesn't work:
The approach I found that works is the one originally posted in this gist: