From 80da6a7da9165c2fa8168bf8cf216356d48f7dc9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ashwin Maroli <ashmaroli@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 19:29:48 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] Replace read-only empty hash with private constant (#418)

Merge pull request 418
---
 lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb | 7 +++++--
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb b/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
index 3ee277d..157babd 100644
--- a/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
+++ b/lib/jekyll-seo-tag/drop.rb
@@ -11,8 +11,11 @@ module Jekyll
       ].freeze
       HOMEPAGE_OR_ABOUT_REGEX = %r!^/(about/)?(index.html?)?$!.freeze
 
+      EMPTY_READ_ONLY_HASH = {}.freeze
+      private_constant :EMPTY_READ_ONLY_HASH
+
       def initialize(text, context)
-        @obj = {}
+        @obj = EMPTY_READ_ONLY_HASH
         @mutations = {}
         @text = text
         @context = context
@@ -236,7 +239,7 @@ module Jekyll
         if hash[key].is_a?(Hash)
           hash[key]
         else
-          {}
+          EMPTY_READ_ONLY_HASH
         end
       end
     end