A Hashie Hash is simply a Hash that has convenience functions baked in such as stringify_keys that may not be available in all libraries.
Converts a mash back to a hash.
# File lib/hashie/hash.rb, line 11 def to_hash(options = {}) out = {} keys.each do |k| key = options[:symbolize_keys] ? k.to_sym : k.to_s out[key] = Hashie::Hash === self[k] ? self[k].to_hash : self[k] end out end
The C geneartor for the json gem doesn't like mashies
# File lib/hashie/hash.rb, line 21 def to_json(*args) to_hash.to_json(*args) end