Issue #13179 has been updated by Andy Bettisworth.


Any method name four or less characters long is a big win. Using bury would be much nicer than my current update_deep_hash calls. 

I wasn't aware of dig in the other classes. I may be overlooking something but why not just use the class dig is used on as a container? Another way would be to allow setting the default container via an optional argument like when setting default values for a Hash, Array, and so on.

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Feature #13179: Deep Hash Update Method
https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/13179#change-62835

* Author: Andy Bettisworth
* Status: Feedback
* Priority: Normal
* Assignee: 
* Target version: 
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I came across a scenario where I needed the ability to update a deeply nested hash (Rails i18n yaml files). This seemed like something that would exist naturally in the DSL of ruby, but I could only find dig() method which only retrieves values if they exist. 24 hours later I wrote a update_deep_hash method (I wouldn't wish this type of recursive coding on anyone else within the Ruby community).

Attached is the solution I hacked together. My question is if we can have a Hash.dig() method which reaches into a deep hash can we expand on this to include update methods of similar nature?

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update_deep_hash.rb (2.26 KB)


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