activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/hash/diff.rb


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class Hash
  # Returns a hash that represents the difference between two hashes.
  #
  #   {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(other)
    dup.
      delete_if { |k, v| other[k] == v }.
      merge!(other.dup.delete_if { |k, v| has_key?(k) })
  end
end