Array of indexes to array of ranges

Question

Ranges in ruby are pretty cool. I end up with arrays such as this:

geneRanges = [(234..25), (500..510), (1640..1653)]

And subsequently ha

Answer 1

Functional, not-very-readable solution:

(a[0,1]+a.each_cons(2).reject{|i,j| j-i==1}.flatten+a[-1,1]).
  each_slice(2).map{|i,j| i..j}

And a nice one:

class Array
  # splits array to sub-arrays wherever two adjacent elements satisfy a condition
  def split_by
    each_cons(2).inject([[first]]){|a, (i, j)|
      a.push([]) if yield(i, j)
      a.last.push j
      a
    }
  end

  # uses split_by to split array to subarrays with consecutive elements, then convert to range
  def to_range
    split_by{|i,j| j-i!=1}.map{|a| a.first..a.last}
  end
end

[505, 506, 507, 600, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1654].split_by{|i,j| j-i!=1}
#=> [[505, 506, 507], [600], [1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651], [1654]]
[505, 506, 507, 600, 1647, 1648, 1649, 1650, 1651, 1654].to_range
#=> [505..507, 600..600, 1647..1651, 1654..1654]