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Appended Pathnames

Check this out:

[1] pry(main)> Rails.root.join("app", "assets") == Rails.root/"app"/"assets"
true

The right hand side of the double equals works because / is aliased to + in Ruby's Pathname class. It's valid syntax for building a pathname.

Confuse your friends!

h/t Brian Dunn

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