David Garamond <lists / zara.6.isreserved.com> wrote in message news:<40025921.4090603 / zara.6.isreserved.com>...

> # is there a #pairs method which returns [[k1,v1], [k2,v2], ...} or
> # something similar?

Hash#to_a does just that:

irb(main):003:0> {:a => 1, :b => 2}.to_a
=> [[:a, 1], [:b, 2]]