Hash of the United States in Ruby

states.rb

::States = {  AK: "Alaska",
              AL: "Alabama",
              AR: "Arkansas",
              AS: "American Samoa",
              AZ: "Arizona",
              CA: "California",
              CO: "Colorado",
              CT: "Connecticut",
              DC: "District of Columbia",
              DE: "Delaware",
              FL: "Florida",
              GA: "Georgia",
              GU: "Guam",
              HI: "Hawaii",
              IA: "Iowa",
              ID: "Idaho",
              IL: "Illinois",
              IN: "Indiana",
              KS: "Kansas",
              KY: "Kentucky",
              LA: "Louisiana",
              MA: "Massachusetts",
              MD: "Maryland",
              ME: "Maine",
              MI: "Michigan",
              MN: "Minnesota",
              MO: "Missouri",
              MS: "Mississippi",
              MT: "Montana",
              NC: "North Carolina",
              ND: "North Dakota",
              NE: "Nebraska",
              NH: "New Hampshire",
              NJ: "New Jersey",
              NM: "New Mexico",
              NV: "Nevada",
              NY: "New York",
              OH: "Ohio",
              OK: "Oklahoma",
              OR: "Oregon",
              PA: "Pennsylvania",
              PR: "Puerto Rico",
              RI: "Rhode Island",
              SC: "South Carolina",
              SD: "South Dakota",
              TN: "Tennessee",
              TX: "Texas",
              UT: "Utah",
              VA: "Virginia",
              VI: "Virgin Islands",
              VT: "Vermont",
              WA: "Washington",
              WI: "Wisconsin",
              WV: "West Virginia",
              WY: "Wyoming"
        }

Thanks for this. Just a heads up -- there is trailing whitespace on every line.

Handy! Thanks

No whitespace version. I threw mine in a module in app/helpers so now I can just do ::States.key("Alaska") and get the abbreviation, which helped me! Thanks!

module StatesHelper
::States = {
    AK: "Alaska",
    AL: "Alabama",
    AR: "Arkansas",
    AS: "American Samoa",
    AZ: "Arizona",
    CA: "California",
    CO: "Colorado",
    CT: "Connecticut",
    DC: "District of Columbia",
    DE: "Delaware",
    FL: "Florida",
    GA: "Georgia",
    GU: "Guam",
    HI: "Hawaii",
    IA: "Iowa",
    ID: "Idaho",
    IL: "Illinois",
    IN: "Indiana",
    KS: "Kansas",
    KY: "Kentucky",
    LA: "Louisiana",
    MA: "Massachusetts",
    MD: "Maryland",
    ME: "Maine",
    MI: "Michigan",
    MN: "Minnesota",
    MO: "Missouri",
    MS: "Mississippi",
    MT: "Montana",
    NC: "North Carolina",
    ND: "North Dakota",
    NE: "Nebraska",
    NH: "New Hampshire",
    NJ: "New Jersey",
    NM: "New Mexico",
    NV: "Nevada",
    NY: "New York",
    OH: "Ohio",
    OK: "Oklahoma",
    OR: "Oregon",
    PA: "Pennsylvania",
    PR: "Puerto Rico",
    RI: "Rhode Island",
    SC: "South Carolina",
    SD: "South Dakota",
    TN: "Tennessee",
    TX: "Texas",
    UT: "Utah",
    VA: "Virginia",
    VI: "Virgin Islands",
    VT: "Vermont",
    WA: "Washington",
    WI: "Wisconsin",
    WV: "West Virginia",
    WY: "Wyoming"
}
end

I've removed the trailing whitespaces.