Some simple monkeypatches to ruby core classes

The string class now has an unindent method. This is useful for things like HERE docs.

Sample usage

require 'manic_monkey'

Rails Hash method symbolize_keys! to turn keys of strings into symbols

Deep symbolize method to symbolize keys recursively See this gist for more information.

Symbolizes all of hash's keys and subkeys. Also allows for custom pre-processing of keys (e.g. downcasing, etc) if the block is given:

somehash.deep_symbolize { |key| key.downcase }

Either include it into global Hash class to make it available to all hashes, or extend only your own hash objects with this module.

Example 1:

class Hash
  include DeepSymbolizable
end

Example 2:

myhash.extend DeepSymbolizable

Typical Useage: You need accessors to the level 1 keys of database stored serialized data, e.g. json, jsonb, xml

In your class that has the serialized db column

class AwesomeSauce
  hash_accessor :column_of_serialized_data, :key1, :key2

This should now allow you to call the method directly on an object created from the class

@object = AwesomeSauce.new
@object.key1

versus

@object = AwesomeSauce.new
@object.column_of_serialized_data[:key1]