I need to convert values and keys of a hash to string, in order to correctly prepare it as params for a Net::HTTP.post_form. For instance:

I need to convert

{:x => [1,2,3,4]}

to

{"x"=>"[1, 2, 3, 4]"}

It's important to convert symbols to string and that arrays are surrounded by quotes.

• to_json returns a string and doesn't solve my problem; I need a hash as return.
• the hash may have more keys and values, so I can't hard code to_s to each key or value.

How can I perform it?

What about this

Hash[ { :x => [1,2,3,4] }.map { |k, v| [k.to_s, v.to_s] } ]
#=> {"x"=>"[1, 2, 3, 4]"}

Or on Ruby >= 2.1

{ :x => [1,2,3,4] }.map { |k, v| [k.to_s, v.to_s] }.to_h
#=> {"x"=>"[1, 2, 3, 4]"}

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