From: Clifford Heath <no@...>
Date: 2010-09-09T07:45:26+09:00
Subject: Re: Receiving array naturally?

Terry Michaels wrote:
>   def process_data(*strings)
>      ...
>   end
> 
> That works with the comma-separated list, because the list gets combined
> into one array ("strings"), but if I pass in an array object, that array
> object is not split up, but rather becomes one (Array object) element of
> the "strings" array.
> 
> is there something else I'm overlooking?

You've overlooked the simplest way:

def process_data(*strings)
  Array(strings).each do |s|
    ...
  end
end