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.

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Answer 1

If you truly want to do it in the Ruby way it would be:

def longest(sentence)

     sentence.split(' ').sort! { |a, b| b.length <=> a.length }[0]

end