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Ruby Pathname.to_path

In Rails code, you'll see a path constructed and returned as a string like this:

> Rails.root.join('app', 'models', 'my_path').to_s
=> "app/models/my_path"

An alternative method, that I think reads nicely, is to call to_path:

Rails.root.join('app', 'models', 'my_path').to_path
=> "app/models/my_path"

Pathname.to_path

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