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Compact a Hash in Ruby

I use Array#compact all the time... you know the one that gets rid of all the nils.

Well I have no idea why it never occured to me that Hash ALSO has a #compact method.

It removes all the key/value pairs where the value is nil.

{
  a: "Alluro",
  b: nil,
  c: "Cheetara"
}.compact

=> {a: "Alluro", c: "Cheetara"}
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