Can you supply arguments to the map(&:method) syntax in Ruby?

Question

You\'re probably familiar with the following Ruby shorthand (a is an array):

a.map(&:method)

For example, try the followin

Answer 1

I'm not sure about the Symbol#with already posted, I simplified it quite a bit and it works well:

class Symbol
  def with(*args, &block)
    lambda { |object| object.public_send(self, *args, &block) }
  end
end

(also uses public_send instead of send to prevent calling private methods, also caller is already used by ruby so this was confusing)