Extract! method in Rails - 6
By Abhishek Kanojia on July 21, 2019
Rails - 6 adds extract! method for array.
extract! method removes and return the elements for which the block returns a true value.
If no block is given an Enumerator is returned instead.
Now, you may be wondering we can use reject! or select! similar to what we thought of earlier. This might seem tricky at the first look but lets have a look at some examples which clears your doubt.
Array#select! method in Ruby
numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
# Extracting all the odd numbers
# It instead modifies the existing data.
numbers.select! { |number| number.odd? }
=> [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
numbers
=> [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
Array#reject! method in Ruby
numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
# Rejecting all the even numbers
# It instead modifies the existing array.
numbers.reject! { |number| number.even? }
=> [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
numbers
=> [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
Now let’s have a look at extract! provided in Rails 6.
numbers = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10]
# Extracting all the even numbers
numbers.extract! { |number| number.even? }
=> [2, 4, 6, 8, 10]
numbers
=> [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]