extract!(*keys) public

Removes and returns the key/value pairs matching the given keys.

hash = { a: 1, b: 2, c: 3, d: 4 }
hash.extract!(:a, :b) # => {:a=>1, :b=>2}
hash                  # => {:c=>3, :d=>4}
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September 8, 2013
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without a bang

We can use hash#slice if we want an Hash#extract (without bang) like behavior.

August 13, 2014 - (>= v4.0.2)
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Non-existent key semantics changed.

For Rails 4.0, the behaviour of this has changed when you pass a key that isn’t in the hash.

3.2 (undocumented):

{ a: 1, b: 2 }.extract!(:a, :x) # => {:a=>1, :x => nil}

4.0 (as per docs):

{ a: 1, b: 2 }.extract!(:a, :x) # => {:a=>1}

The 4.0 behaviour is now consistent with the behaviour of slice, the 3.2 behaviour was not.