Today I Learned

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Pathnames using division in Ruby

This will probably seem like a common pattern to you:

Rails.root.join("spec/support")

or 

Rails.root.join("spec", "support")

Did you know that the division operator on Pathname is aliased to the addition operator? So you can do this:

Rails.root / "app" / "views"

I know it will probably frazzle a bunch of people, but I kinda love it.

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