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

Use HashWithIndifferentAccess instead of normal Hash.

For completeness, write:

SETTINGS = HashWithIndifferentAccess.new(YAML.load_file("#{RAILS_ROOT}/config/settings.yml"­))