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Rails 5 - Array Inquirer

Rails 5 has a new wrapper class for Array called ArrayInquirer the same way StringInquirer does, but with arrays.

irb> colors = [:blue, 'green'].inquiry
=> [:blue, "green"]
irb> colors.class
=> ActiveSupport::ArrayInquirer

This will create nice question like methods such as:

irb> colors = [:blue, 'green'].inquiry
=> [:blue, "green"]
irb> colors.blue?
=> true
irb> colors.green?
=> true
irb> colors.red?
=> false

It also creates the method any? for you:

irb> colors = [:blue, 'green'].inquiry
=> [:blue, "green"]
irb> colors.any?('blue', :yellow)
=> true
irb> colors.any?('red', :yellow)
=> false

By the way we use StringInquirer already:

irb> Rails.env
=> "development"
irb> Rails.env.class
=> ActiveSupport::StringInquirer
irb> Rails.env.development?
=> true

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