Chapter 3. Take Advantage of Ruby’s Smart Collections
Here’s something to do the next time you have a rainy afternoon to kill: Download two or three significant Ruby programs, maybe utilities that you use every day or applications you have heard of or perhaps projects whose names you just happen to like. Once you have the code, settle in and start reading it; figure out how it works and why it’s put together the way it is. One of the things you are likely to find is arrays, lots and lots of arrays. You will probably also come across a good number of hashes mixed in with those arrays.
In the pages that follow we are going to look at the Ruby versions of these two venerable data structures and discover that they have some surprising talents. Along ...
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