How to understand Ruby's .each and .map

Question

I am having trouble understanding the differences between map and each, and where and when to use them.

I read \"What does map do?\" and \

Answer 1

The map method takes an enum given some block, and iterates through it doing some logic. In your case the logic is x+1. As you say it will not mutate anything unless you use !.

each is simply returning the array that is being called.

Let's take an example of:

names = ["bob"]

If we do:

names.each{|names| names + "somestring"}

the output is still ["bob"]. The reason your second example is different is due to the puts.

As an exercise try doing:

y = [1,2,3].each {|x| puts x + 1}

You will get:

2
3
4
 [1,2,3]