If I have a hash in Ruby on Rails, is there a way to make it indifferent access?

Question

If I already have a hash, can I make it so that

h[:foo]
h[\'foo\']

are the same? (is this called indifferent access?)

The details: I

Answer 1

You can also write the YAML file that way:

--- !map:HashWithIndifferentAccess
one: 1
two: 2

after that:

SETTINGS = YAML.load_file("path/to/yaml_file")
SETTINGS[:one] # => 1
SETTINGS['one'] # => 1