[Rails] Re: Why does this work?

Thanks for that - I won't miss all those hash arrows. I also found
more info here for anyone else who's interested:

http://devlicio.us/blogs/sergio_pereira/archive/2008/12/31/playing-with-ruby-1-9-name-parameters-sort-of.aspx

On Oct 7, 9:52 pm, Frederick Cheung <frederick.che...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Oct 7, 7:45 pm, Jonathan Telfer <jntel...@googlemail.com> wrote:
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> > I've been working through the Depot application to get back into Rails
> > after a few years doing other things. While I was looking at some
> > functional tests earlier I started thinking about this:
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> > put :update, id: @user.to_param, user: @input_attributes
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> > why doesn't the "id: @..." part throw an exception? id: isn't a
> > symbol. Is this some sort of alternative method of declaring a hash?
>
> Correct - ruby 1.9 added a json-ish alternative syntax for hash
> literals
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> Fred
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> > Is it a method call?
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> > It works, which is great, but I'd love to know why.

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