I’ve become frustrated writing a bunch of [:] lines working with ruby’s hashes.

hash = {:foo => 'bar'}   # so ugly...
=> {:foo=>"bar"}
hash[:foo]  # again...
=> "bar"

Sure there’s the openstruct thingy but it’s completely useless.

So i’ve gone against the rules and extended Hash, ending up in a dangerous (choose keys wisely) but so much more confortable syntax:

class Hash
  def method_missing(m)
    k = m.to_sym
    return self[k] if self.has_key? k
    super
  end
end

In action:

hash = {foo: 'bar'}
=> {:foo=>"bar"}
hash.foo
=> "bar"