How to build a Ruby hash out of two equally-sized arrays?

Question

I have two arrays

a = [:foo, :bar, :baz, :bof]

and

b = [\"hello\", \"world\", 1, 2]

I want

Answer 1

Just for curiosity's sake:

require 'fruity'

a = [:foo, :bar, :baz, :bof]
b = ["hello", "world", 1, 2]

compare do
  jtbandes { h = Hash[a.zip b] }
  lethjakman { h = a.zip(b).to_h }
  junichi_ito1 { [a, b].transpose.to_h }
  junichi_ito2 { Hash[ [a, b].transpose ] } 
end

# >> Running each test 8192 times. Test will take about 1 second.
# >> lethjakman is similar to junichi_ito1
# >> junichi_ito1 is similar to jtbandes
# >> jtbandes is similar to junichi_ito2

compare do 
  junichi_ito1 { [a, b].transpose.to_h }
  junichi_ito2 { Hash[ [a, b].transpose ] } 
end

# >> Running each test 8192 times. Test will take about 1 second.
# >> junichi_ito1 is faster than junichi_ito2 by 19.999999999999996% ± 10.0%