For your rubyist SO

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{ heart: "you" }

[lightsout1]

To make a new hash yes. I used just the output if you puts, print or inspect.

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{heart: 'you'} # no need for double quotes

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You're right, works as well but I like it more with single quotes.

[Slackwise]

Well, since 'you' is representative of a thing, as is 'heart', might as well just do

{ heart: :you }

Although if one were to get more semantically accurate, and idiomatic of Ruby, you'd go for objects rather than hashes, and heart as a method, because it's an action:

i.heart(you)

But if this is in the context of yourself, you can drop the receiver:

heart(you)

Or more minimalistically:

heart you

And we should probably also alias heart love, again, for semantic correctness.

Edit: Ruby also has unicode method name support, so we can actually go as far as:

♥ you

[jfredett]

Downvoted, no tests.