Given a nested hash, serialize that to an array of property key=value pairs where each key is the dotted form of all the hash keys to reach the value

serialize_hash_to_dotted_properties.rb

def serialize( h )
  
   h.collect{ |k,v|
    
    unless v.kind_of? Hash
      
      "#{k}=#{v}"
    
    else
      
      serialize( v ).collect{ |more| "#{k}.#{more}" }
        
    end
  
  }.flatten
  
end