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diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/diff.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/diff.rb
index deace40a29..6abd678822 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/diff.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/diff.rb
@@ -2,6 +2,14 @@ module ActiveSupport #:nodoc:
module CoreExtensions #:nodoc:
module Hash #:nodoc:
module Diff
+ # Returns a hash that represents the difference between two hashes.
+ #
+ # Examples:
+ #
+ # {1 => 2}.diff(1 => 2) # => {}
+ # {1 => 2}.diff(1 => 3) # => {1 => 2}
+ # {}.diff(1 => 2) # => {1 => 2}
+ # {1 => 2, 3 => 4}.diff(1 => 2) # => {3 => 4}
def diff(h2)
self.dup.delete_if { |k, v| h2[k] == v }.merge(h2.dup.delete_if { |k, v| self.has_key?(k) })
end