Moin! Robert Klemme wrote: > You could do res.fields.zip( tupl ) which yields a nested array: > > irb(main):034:0> ["name","age"].zip(["john",20]) > => [["name", "john"], ["age", 20]] > > Apparently there's no std way to turn this into a hash There is, but it's a bit obscure: arr = ["name","age"].zip(["john",20]) Hash[*arr.flatten] # => {"name"=>"john", "age"=>20} > Regards > robert More regards, Florian Gross