# What would be the easiest/fastest way to convert Hash keys

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**Created:** [January 7, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-would-be-the-easiest-fastest-way-to-convert-hash-keys/157085 "2009-01-07T08:51:10Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 7, 2009, 8:51am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/what-would-be-the-easiest-fastest-way-to-convert-hash-keys/157085/1 "2009-01-07T08:51:10Z")

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Hello.

I was wondering, what would be the easiest and fastest way to convert  
Hash keys from Symbol objects to String?

I came up with something like this, but I think that maybe there’s some  
better Ruby-way to do it:

tmp = {}  
h.each\_pair {|k, v| tmp[k.to\_s] = v}  
h = tmp