TypeError: no implicit conversion of Symbol into Integer

Solution 1:

Your item variable holds Array instance (in [hash_key, hash_value] format), so it doesn't expect Symbol in [] method.

This is how you could do it using Hash#each:

def format(hash)
  output = Hash.new
  hash.each do |key, value|
    output[key] = cleanup(value)
  end
  output
end

or, without this:

def format(hash)
  output = hash.dup
  output[:company_name] = cleanup(output[:company_name])
  output[:street] = cleanup(output[:street])
  output
end

Solution 2:

This error shows up when you are treating an array or string as a Hash. In this line myHash.each do |item| you are assigning item to a two-element array [key, value], so item[:symbol] throws an error.

Solution 3:

You probably meant this:

require 'active_support/core_ext' # for titleize

myHash = {company_name:"MyCompany", street:"Mainstreet", postcode:"1234", city:"MyCity", free_seats:"3"}

def cleanup string
  string.titleize
end

def format(hash)
  output = {}
  output[:company_name] = cleanup(hash[:company_name])
  output[:street] = cleanup(hash[:street])
  output
end

format(myHash) # => {:company_name=>"My Company", :street=>"Mainstreet"}

Please read documentation on Hash#each