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

Rails 6 (don't know what version is this available from) has a semantic alias:

def a_method(options={})
  options.with_defaults!(
    a_key: :a_default_value,
    b_key: :b_default_value,
    ..
  )
  ..
end