diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index d021e68f05..235d7778bb 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+Mon Nov 29 21:11:16 2010  Nobuyoshi Nakada  <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
+
+	* misc/ruby-mode.el (ruby-font-lock-keywords): highlight literal
+	  hash key labels as symbols.
+
 Mon Nov 29 18:31:31 2010  Martin Duerst  <duerst@it.aoyama.ac.jp>
 
 	* test/ruby/test_transcode.rb (test_unicode_public_review_issue_121):
diff --git a/misc/ruby-mode.el b/misc/ruby-mode.el
index 0072f1e0d5..2f685f8b8d 100644
--- a/misc/ruby-mode.el
+++ b/misc/ruby-mode.el
@@ -1392,6 +1392,7 @@ buffer position `limit' or the end of the buffer."
      ;; symbols
      '("\\(^\\|[^:]\\)\\(:\\([-+~]@?\\|[/%&|^`]\\|\\*\\*?\\|<\\(<\\|=>?\\)?\\|>[>=]?\\|===?\\|=~\\|![~=]?\\|\\[\\]=?\\|\\(\\w\\|_\\)+\\([!?=]\\|\\b_*\\)\\|#{[^}\n\\\\]*\\(\\\\.[^}\n\\\\]*\\)*}\\)\\)"
        2 font-lock-reference-face)
+     '("\\(^\\s *\\|[\[\{\(,]\\s *\\|\\sw\\s +\\)\\(\\(\\sw\\|_\\)+\\):[^:]" 2 font-lock-reference-face)
      ;; expression expansion
      '("#\\({[^}\n\\\\]*\\(\\\\.[^}\n\\\\]*\\)*}\\|\\(\\$\\|@\\|@@\\)\\(\\w\\|_\\)+\\)"
        0 font-lock-variable-name-face t)