a function to determine whether 2 strings are anagrams, with application.

political_anagram.rb

def str_to_letter_hash(str)
  str.downcase.gsub(/[^a-z]/, "").split("").sort.inject(Hash.new(0)) {|m, x| m[x] += 1; m }
end

def anagrams?(s1, s2)
  str_to_letter_hash(s1) == str_to_letter_hash(s2)
end

anagrams? "Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan", "My ultimate Ayn Rand Porn"
 => true