returning struct data as a hash in ruby

Question

Is there a valid reason for there not being a method to return the data of a standard ruby struct as a hash (member, value pairs)? Seeing that structs and hashes have very simil

Answer 1

(Ruby <= 1.9.3) OpenStruct has OpenStruct#marshall_dump and Struct has Struct#each_pair (use to_a to get the pairs and Hash+to_a to get the hash):

Person = Struct.new(:name, :age)
person = Person.new("Jamie", 23)
person_hash = Hash[person.each_pair.to_a]
#=> {:age=>23, :name=>"Jamie"}

With Ruby 2.0 things are easier: Struct#to_h, OpenStruct#to_h:

Person = Struct.new(:name, :age)
person = Person.new("Jamie", 23)
person_hash = person.to_h
#=> {:age=>23, :name=>"Jamie"}