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That did the trick, could you tell me why what i did is wrong, I was under the impression that symbols and strings could be used interchangeably and symbols had better performance.

nikhil
– nikhil

2012-06-27 17:52:24 +00:00
Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 17:52
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Symbols and strings are different objects. Symbols are always a reference to the same object, whereas strings are new objects each time referenced (unless stored in a variable).

André Medeiros
– André Medeiros

2012-06-27 17:54:47 +00:00
Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 17:54
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What @AndréSantosdeMedeiros said is correct. The behavior you are thinking of is something that comes with Rails, which provides a HashWithIndifferentAccess that lets you use either the symbol or string form of the key to access the value.

Abe Voelker
– Abe Voelker

2012-06-27 20:21:03 +00:00
Commented Jun 27, 2012 at 20:21

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