From: Fily Salas <fs_tigre@...>
Date: 2011-11-25T01:24:06+09:00
Subject: Re: Understanding Ruby blocks

"Jesús Gabriel y Galán" <jgabrielygalan@gmail.com> wrote in post 
#1033561:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 4:55 PM, Fily Salas <fs_tigre@hotmail.com>
> wrote:

> This is quite straightforward: in this situation the use case is that
> you want to ensure that something happens before and after the block
> code. In this case, the File#open method opens the file, then calls
> the block and then ensures that the file is closed, even in the face
> of an exception within the block.

So the main difference in this case is that by using block the file will 
be closed by itself and if I use the second method I would need to 
manually close it?

"Sylvester Keil"
>http://yehudakatz.com/2010/02/07/the-building-blocks-of-ruby/

Thanks for the link, I will read more about blocks.

Thank you all very much!

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