How to map and remove nil values in Ruby

Question

I have a map which either changes a value or sets it to nil. I then want to remove the nil entries from the list. The list doesn\'t need to be kept.

Thi

Answer 1

each_with_object is probably the cleanest way to go here:

new_items = items.each_with_object([]) do |x, memo|
    ret = process_x(x)
    memo << ret unless ret.nil?
end

In my opinion, each_with_object is better than inject/reduce in conditional cases because you don't have to worry about the return value of the block.