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accessing a nested ruby hash knowing the path to

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Let's guess I have a hash like this:
my_hash={
    loginame: :"pepe",
    name: :"Duuuo",
    zip: {default: '00000', correct: :'54666'},
    city: {
        uno: "1",
        dentro: {
            default: "Madrid",
            original: "Barcelona"
        }

    },
    accent: [
      10,
      20,
      {
        original: "spanish",
        learned: "german"
      }
    ]
}

And we have an array of unknown paths to the values in the hash, for example:
keys=[
  "[:city][:dentro][:original]",
  "[:accent][1]",
  "[:accent][2][:original]"
]


And I want to know the value in the hash on that path, for that purpose I am using in my code 'eval' 

keys.each{|key|
  puts eval "my_hash#{key}"
}


But apart of not being elegant... there are many risks, so I would like to know if you propose any other better way

Thanks!

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accessing a nested ruby hash knowing the path to Mario Ruiz <tcblues@gmail.com> - 2018-01-04 08:04 -0800
  Re: accessing a nested ruby hash knowing the path to Robert Klemme <shortcutter@googlemail.com> - 2018-01-05 08:24 +0100

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