dup produces a shallow copy [1]. So in your case, when you call dup, it
creates a copy of the hash, but not the objects that the hash points to. In
order to get the behavior you want, you would need to do a deep copy. One
way to do that would be:
dup_row = Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(row))
This is idiomatic ruby behavior and shouldn't be affected by rails, though I
can't say for certain it isn't.
[1]: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/Object.html#M001015
Allen Madsen
http://www.allenmadsen.com
On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 12:20 AM, gerberdata <gerb...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi not sure if this is where I should post this problem but since
> upgrading to rails 3.07 dup is not working as expected
>
> basically in method I have this
> dup_row = row.dup
> #then I delete a row of my original hash
> row[:athlete].delete(:sports) if !row[:athlete][:sports].nil?
>
>
> pretty simple but what is happening is it is deleting from the dup
> and the original here is the debug
> code of the original and dup just after deleting the sports
>
>
> original hash values
>
> {"athlete"=>{"first_name"=>"DaveG5600", "gender"=>"M",
> "hometown_id"=>"40", "birthplace_id"=>"30", "last_name"=>"test"},
> "leagues"=>{"league"=>{"id"=>"821", "start_year"=>"1983",
> "end_year"=>"2003"}}, "clubs"=>{"club"=>[{"id"=>"11802",
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}, {"id"=>"1403", "start_year"=>nil,
> "end_year"=>nil}]}, "schools"=>{"school"=>{"id"=>nil,
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}},
> "sports"=>{"sport"=>{"id"=>"102", "start_year"=>"1985",
> "end_year"=>"1986", "sport_roles"=>"10"}}}}
>
> dup row (notice sports is missing which even though I am not deleting
> from this hash)
> {"athlete"=>{"first_name"=>"DaveG5600", "gender"=>"M",
> "hometown_id"=>"40", "birthplace_id"=>"30", "last_name"=>"test"},
> "leagues"=>{"league"=>{"id"=>"821", "start_year"=>"1983",
> "end_year"=>"2003"}}, "clubs"=>{"club"=>[{"id"=>"11802",
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}, {"id"=>"1403", "start_year"=>nil,
> "end_year"=>nil}]}, "schools"=>{"school"=>{"id"=>nil,
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}}}}
>
> row (this is where I expect to have the sport value deleted which is
> does)
> {"athlete"=>{"first_name"=>"DaveG5600", "gender"=>"M",
> "hometown_id"=>"40", "birthplace_id"=>"30", "last_name"=>"test"},
> "leagues"=>{"league"=>{"id"=>"821", "start_year"=>"1983",
> "end_year"=>"2003"}}, "clubs"=>{"club"=>[{"id"=>"11802",
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}, {"id"=>"1403", "start_year"=>nil,
> "end_year"=>nil}]}, "schools"=>{"school"=>{"id"=>nil,
> "start_year"=>nil, "end_year"=>nil}}}}
>
>
> Very strange not sure if rails or ruby issue.
>
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