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

The accepted answer did not work for me, i used the following instead

require 'ostruct'
require 'date'

lid = OpenStruct.new(:status=>0,:rowversion=>0,:cre_dt=>DateTime.now.to_date,:cre_user=>'9999999')
p Hash[lid.each_pair.to_a] #=> {}
p lid.marshal_dump #=>{:status=>0, :rowversion=>0, :cre_dt=>#, :cre_user=>"9999999"}