Building on my original Ruby Arrays article a few more things you can do with Ruby Arrays.

Concatenation

a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
c = [a,b]
> [[1,2,3],[4,5,6]]
# Not quite what we wanted.
c = [a,b].flatten
> [1,2,3,4,5,6]

This can be achieved much simpler via addition

a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
c = a + b
> [1,2,3,4,5,6]

Another cool fact that you can subtract array from each other. It will subtract objects which have matching object ids.

a = [1,2,3]
b = [4,5,6]
c = a + b - [3,4]
> [1,2,5,6]

This can also be used to list the unique methods of an object by subtracting all base methods.

fl = 0.0 # a float
count_this = fl.methods.sort - Object.methods
count_this.count
 => 52

 Object.methods.count
 => 102

 fl.methods.count
 => 127