advantage of tap method in ruby

Question

I was just reading a blog article and noticed that the author used tap in a snippet something like:

user = User.new.tap do |u|
  u.username = \         


        

Answer 1

There is a tool called flog that measures how difficult it is to read a method. "The higher the score, the more pain the code is in."

def with_tap
  user = User.new.tap do |u|
    u.username = "foobar"
    u.save!
  end
end

def without_tap
  user = User.new
  user.username = "foobar"
  user.save!
end

def using_create
  user = User.create! username: "foobar"
end

and according on flog's result the method with tap is the most difficult to read (and I agree with it)

 4.5: main#with_tap                    temp.rb:1-4
 2.4:   assignment
 1.3:   save!
 1.3:   new
 1.1:   branch
 1.1:   tap

 3.1: main#without_tap                 temp.rb:8-11
 2.2:   assignment
 1.1:   new
 1.1:   save!

 1.6: main#using_create                temp.rb:14-16
 1.1:   assignment
 1.1:   create!