From: Jeremy Bopp Date: 2011-03-04T00:11:09+09:00 Subject: Re: Extracting the shortest string from an array On 3/3/2011 09:01, Adam Hegge wrote: > array.min{|a,b| a.size <=> b.size } You can actually simplify this even more. Take a look at Enumerable#min_by: http://rdoc.info/stdlib/core/1.8.7/Enumerable:min_by -Jeremy