nested hashes and arays to a nice OpenStruct

deep_struct.rb

require 'ostruct'

# use dot notation on nested hash/arrays

# based on http://andreapavoni.com/blog/2013/4/create-recursive-openstruct-from-a-ruby-hash/#.U3NjHXWx3AF
# but extended to deal with arrays

# or you could just use https://github.com/jsuchal/hashugar

class DeepStruct < OpenStruct
  def initialize(hash=nil)

    @table = {}
    @hash_table = {}

    if hash
      hash.each do |k,v|
        if v.is_a?(Hash)
          @table[k.to_sym] = self.class.new(v)
        elsif v.is_a?(Array)
          arr = Array.new
          v.each {|j| arr.push self.class.new(j) }
          @table[k.to_sym] = arr
        else
          @table[k.to_sym] = v
        end

        @hash_table[k.to_sym] = v

        new_ostruct_member(k)
      end
    end
  end

  def to_h
    @hash_table
  end

end