How to count duplicates in Ruby Arrays

How do you count duplicates in a ruby array?

For example, if my array had three a's, how could I count that

This will yield the duplicate elements as a hash with the number of occurences for each duplicate item. Let the code speak:

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

class Array
  # monkey-patched version
  def dup_hash
    inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h,e| h[e] += 1; h }.select { 
      |k,v| v > 1 }.inject({}) { |r, e| r[e.first] = e.last; r }
  end
end

# unmonkeey'd
def dup_hash(ary)
  ary.inject(Hash.new(0)) { |h,e| h[e] += 1; h }.select { 
    |_k,v| v > 1 }.inject({}) { |r, e| r[e.first] = e.last; r }
end

p dup_hash([1, 2, "a", "a", 4, "a", 2, 1])
# {"a"=>3, 1=>2, 2=>2}

p [1, 2, "Thanks", "You're welcome", "Thanks", 
  "You're welcome", "Thanks", "You're welcome"].dup_hash
# {"You're welcome"=>3, "Thanks"=>3}