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Coming from a Javascript background, I find the memoization pattern in Ruby to be really interesting. Here's an article that helped me with learning about it: justinweiss.com/articles/4-simple-...
I wrote an article few years ago about little-known stuff in the standard library:
katafrakt.me/2018/06/06/hidden-jew...
You can use
obj.method(:a_method_name).source_locationto know where the method,a_method_name, is defined. It's super useful when debugging so I don't need to "guess" what a method does