How to sort a Ruby Hash alphabetically by keys

Question

I am trying to sort a Hash alphabetically by key, but I can\'t seem to find a way to do it without creating my own Sorting class. I found the code below to sort by value if it\'

Answer 1

You can create a new empty hash to hold the sorted hash data. Iterate through the returned array and load the data into the new hash to hold the sorted hash data.

temp = {}
temp["ninjas"]=36
temp["pirates"]=12
temp["cheese"]=222 
temp = temp.sort_by { |key, val| key }

temp_sorted = {}
temp.each { |sub_arr| temp_sorted[sub_arr[0]] = sub_arr[1] } 
temp = temp_sorted

temp now equals {"cheese"=>222, "ninjas"=>36, "pirates"=>12}