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Ruby Here Documents - "squiggly"

Today I learned that ruby 2.3.0 has released the "squiggly" heredoc <<~HEREDOC, like:

sql = <<~SQL
SELECT *
FROM users
WHERE users.status = 'active'
SQL

ActiveRecord::Base.connection.execute(sql)
  • <<HEREDOC => plain text
  • <<-HEREDOC => plain text, may indent the closing identifier
  • <<~HEREDOC => plain text, could indent the content

reference

Ruby Literals - Here Documents

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