How do I convert XML into a hash in Rails?

Question

How do I convert an XML body to a hash in Ruby?

I have an XML body which I\'d like to parse into a hash

Answer 1

ActiveSupport adds a Hash.from_xml, which does the conversion in a single call. Described in another question: https://stackoverflow.com/a/7488299/937595

Example:

require 'open-uri'
remote_xml_file = "https://www.example.com/some_file.xml"
data = Hash.from_xml(open(remote_xml_file))