How to replace a hash key with another key

Question

hash[:new_key] = hash.delete :old_key

rails Hash has standard method for it:

hash.transform_keys{ |key| key.to_s.upcase }

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Hash.html#method-i-transform_keys

UPD: ruby 2.5 method

If all the keys are strings and all of them have the underscore prefix, then you can patch up the hash in place with this:

h.keys.each { |k| h[k[1, k.length - 1]] = h[k]; h.delete(k) }

The k[1, k.length - 1] bit grabs all of k except the first character. If you want a copy, then:

new_h = Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k[1, k.length - 1], v] }]

Or

new_h = h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k[1, k.length - 1]] = v; x }

You could also use sub if you don't like the k[] notation for extracting a substring:

h.keys.each { |k| h[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = h[k]; h.delete(k) }
Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k.sub(/\A_/, ''), v] }]
h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = v; x }

And, if only some of the keys have the underscore prefix:

h.keys.each do |k|
  if(k[0,1] == '_')
    h[k[1, k.length - 1]] = h[k]
    h.delete(k)
  end
end

Similar modifications can be done to all the other variants above but these two:

Hash[h.map { |k, v| [k.sub(/\A_/, ''), v] }]
h.inject({ }) { |x, (k,v)| x[k.sub(/\A_/, '')] = v; x }

should be okay with keys that don't have underscore prefixes without extra modifications.

you can do

hash.inject({}){|option, (k,v) | option["id"] = v if k == "_id"; option}

This should work for your case!

If we want to rename a specific key in hash then we can do it as follows:
Suppose my hash is my_hash = {'test' => 'ruby hash demo'}
Now I want to replace 'test' by 'message', then:
my_hash['message'] = my_hash.delete('test')