class Hash def merge!(other, &block) raise "can't convert argument into Hash" unless other.respond_to?(:to_hash) if block other.each_key{|k| self[k] = (self.has_key?(k))? block.call(k, self[k], other[k]): other[k] } else other.each_key{|k| self[k] = other[k]} end self end end