Magic First and Last Indicator in a Loop in Ruby/Rails?

Question

Ruby/Rails does lots of cool stuff when it comes to sugar for basic things, and I think there\'s a very common scenario that I was wondering if anyone has done a helper or s

Answer 1

You could grab the first and last elements and process them differently, if you like.

first = array.shift
last = array.pop
process_first_one
array.each { |x| process_middle_bits }
process_last_one