Problem with return from method

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1

I have this situation arising in a single class:

method 1 contains:
. . .
      current_hash = remap_current_hash( ao_hash )
      puts( "I have returned from remap_current_hash" )
      puts( "and now @current_hash contains:" )
      puts( @current_hash.to_yaml.sort )
. . .

method remap_current_hash contains
    def remap_current_hash( hash )
      @current_hash = case
      when hash.has_key?( :ao_cctn )
        remap_ao_hash( hash )
      when hash.has_key?( :rr_cctn )
        remap_rr_hash( hash )
      when hash.has_key?( :rs_cctn )
        remap_rs_hash( hash )
      else
        hash
      end
      puts( "I am returning from remap_current_hash" )
      puts( "@current_hash is: " )
      puts( @current_hash.to_yaml.sort )
      puts()
      return @current_hash
   end

before the return in remap @current_hash looks like this:

     @current_hash is:
      - 7507PARS003936

···

---
      :ccdns:
      :cctn: "13466600016385"
      :cfia_facsimile_no: " "
      :cfia_telephone_no: " "
      :dollar_value_total: "00000000030736"
      :entry_type_code: AB
      :expected_at: "201006101300"
      . . .

immediately after the return it looks like this:
      I have returned from remap_current_hash
      and now @current_hash contains:
      --- "13466600016294"

Before the return, @current_hash is a hash. After the return it is a
string with a totally unexpected value. There is absolutely no
intermediate processing that I can do between the method return and the
local variable. What is happening here? What is doing this?

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2

Found the error. I was not explicitly returning the remapped hash as a
hash when adding a key. Only the key value of the new key was returned
as it was the last operation before returning from that method.

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