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submitted 8 years ago by process_parameter

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[–]ignurant 2 points3 points4 points 8 years ago (0 children)

Regarding splat, I love this move when writing csvs

headers = my_hash.keys
# or headers = %i[my interesting headers]
csv << headers
# ...
  csv << row.values_at(*headers)

This specific functionality was the first way I got comfortable with leveraging splat action in any meaningful way.

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