Don's hash problem in ruby

fuck_you_replit.rb

some_array_of_hashes = [
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 1, d: 2, e: 4},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 1, d: 5, e: 1},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 1, d: 7, e: 8},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 1, d: 9, e: 6},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 2, d: 2, e: 3},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 3, d: 2, e: 3},
    {a: 1, b: 1, c: 4, d: 2, e: 3},
]

# first, a one liner
some_array_of_hashes.uniq {|x| [ x[:a], x[:b], x[:c] ]}

#now recursively

def remove_duplicates array_of_hashes
  if array_of_hashes.empty?
    []
  else
    remove_duplicates_helper array_of_hashes, array_of_hashes[0], [array_of_hashes[0]]
  end
end

def remove_duplicates_helper hashed, comp, acc
  temp = {a: comp[:a], b: comp[:b], c: comp[:c]}
  if hashed.empty?
    return acc
  end
    
  temp2 = {a: hashed[0][:a], b: hashed[0][:b], c: hashed[0][:c]}
  if temp == temp2
      remove_duplicates_helper(hashed[1..-1], comp, acc)
  else
    remove_duplicates_helper(hashed[1..-1], hashed[0], acc + [hashed[0]])
  end
    
end