Enumerable iterators (why I love Ruby part 2)

Got myself a sleepless night recently and killed some time reading the Rubyisms in Rails book. The chapter about Iterators was particularly pleasant, reminding me the beauty of Ruby’s Enumerable class - feels so Lisp-ish and Scheme-ish to write stuff like col.select{..}.collect{..}.join(”, “)

For the curious, here’s a cool excerpt from the book, with Enumerable’s most important methods:

Examples of Enumerable’s Higher-Level Iterators

Selection
common = bird.select {|bird, count| count > 5 }
rare = bird.reject { |bird, count| count > 5 }

Accumulation (summing up values)
sightings = birds.inject {|total, bird| total += b.count}

Detection
indie = jukebox.any? {|x| x.artist.hip? }

Searching
Winner = contestants.find {|p| p.has_answer? }

Reordering
titles = jukebox.sort_by {|x| x.title }

Partitioning
quick, dead = people.partition {|p| p.can_outrun? :bear }

Recombination
blind_dates = restaurants.zip(men, women)

Go ahead, read the docs and use Enumerable without restraints - your code will look much more beautiful and, well.. Rubyish.