How to pass and render symbols in Ruby/Rails
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I want to pass a symbol into a method and have it 

    def block
    @something = Something.find(1)
    hsh = {:type => :method_to_perform}
    hsh.each { |k, v| nil_test k, v }
    end

    def nil_test k, v
    @something.try(:k) ? (@k = @something.k.v) : nil
    end

I'm running into one or maybe two issues, first I think passing the symbol isn't acting as a method on `@something`. How do you pass a symbol and have it act as a method into another block?

Second, I want the key to become the symbol, in others words in the above example I want @k to be @type, not @k. Know how to solve this problem?