Ruby: What is the easiest way to remove the first element from an array?

Question

Lets say I have an array

[0, 132, 432, 342, 234]

What is the easiest way to get rid of the first element? (0)

Answer 1

You can use Array.delete_at(0) method which will delete first element.

 x = [2,3,4,11,0]
 x.delete_at(0) unless x.empty? # [3,4,11,0]