I am trying:
Product.first.attributes.map{|k, v| "#{k.to_sym} => #{v}"}
However, I receive the output as follows:
["id => 53", "name = blah"], ["id => 54", "name = blahblah"]
What I want is:
[{:id=>53,:name=>"blah"}, {:id=>54,:name=>"blahblah"}]
Looks like you're just trying to convert the Product.first.attributes Hash to a Hash with symbols for keys rather than strings. You can make it easy on yourself by calling the symbolize_keys that Rails (ActiveSupport actually) has patched into Hash:
h = Product.first.attributes.symbolize_keys
When you say this:
"#{k.to_sym} => #{v}"
you're just producing a string that looks sort of like a Hash and that's not terribly useful. If you want to symbolize the keys the long way, you'd probably produce an array of arrays using:
...map { |k, v| [ k.to_sym, v ] }
and then feed that whole thing to Hash[]:
h = Hash[Product.first.attributes.map { |k, v| [ k.to_sym, v ] }]
I wouldn't bother with all that noise though, just use symbolize_keys and move on to more interesting problems.
