How to do ruby deep copy in chef

Question

I want to deep copy a chef attribute.

I try to use Marshal:

default[:deep_clone_test] = {};
Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(default[:deep_clone_test]))

But I get the error: "TypeError: can't dump hash with default proc"

How can I deep copy a chef attribute?

Answer 1

I ended doing this:

JSON.parse(my_json.to_json, symbolize_names: true)