Common Ruby Idioms

Question

One thing I love about ruby is that mostly it is a very readable language (which is great for self-documenting code)

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Answer 1

You can deepcopy with Marshaling object easily. - taken from The Ruby Programming Language

def deepcopy(o)
  Marshal.load(Marshal.dump(o))
end

Note that files and I/O streams, as well as Method and Binding objects, are too dynamic to be marshaled; there would be no reliable way to restore their state.