What does send() do in Ruby?

Question

Can someone please tell me what

send(\"#{Model.find...}\")

is and does?

Answer 1

send is a ruby (without rails) method allowing to invoke another method by name.

From documentation

   class Klass
     def hello(*args)
       "Hello " + args.join(' ')
     end
   end
   k = Klass.new
   k.send :hello, "gentle", "readers"   #=> "Hello gentle readers"

http://corelib.rubyonrails.org/classes/Object.html#M001077