Ruby getting the longest word of a sentence

Question

I\'m trying to create method named longest_word that takes a sentence as an argument and The function will return the longest word of the sentence.

My c

Answer 1

sort_by! and reverse!

def longest_word(sentence)
  longw = sentence.split(" ")
  longw.sort_by!(&:length).reverse!
  p longw[0]
end

longest_word("once upon a time long ago a very longword")