Given an array of arguments, how do I send those arguments to a particular function in Ruby?

Question

Forgive the beginner question, but say I have an array:

a = [1,2,3]

And a function somewhere; let\'s say it\'s an instance function:

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Answer 1

As you know, when you define a method, you can use the * to turn a list of arguments into an array. Similarly when you call a method you can use the * to turn an array into a list of arguments. So in your example you can just do:

Ilike.new.turtles(*a)