Ruby: methods as array elements - how do they work?

Question

This probably isn\'t something you should try at home, but for some reason or another I tried to create an array of methods in Ruby.

I started by defining two methods.

Answer 1

@alestanis explained the reason well. If you were trying to store the methods, then you can do what Lars Haugseth says or you could do the folllowing:

test1 = Proc.new { puts "test!" }
test2 = Proc.new { puts "test2!" }
a = [test1, test2]

This may make your code much more readable.

Here is an irb run.

1.9.3p194 :009 > test1 = Proc.new { puts "test!" }
 => # 
1.9.3p194 :010 > test2 = Proc.new { puts "test2!" }
 => # 
1.9.3p194 :011 > a = [test1, test2]
 => [#, #]