What's a nice clean way to use an options hash with defaults values as a parameter in ruby

Question

Let\'s say I want a method which will be called like this:

 tiger = create_tiger( :num_stripes => 12, :max_speed => 43.2 )
 tiger.num_stripes # will be 12
         


        

Answer 1

def foo(options = {})
  options = { ... defaults ... }.merge(options)
end