I'm only familiar with Ruby syntax, and not 100% fluent in it, but it seems to me like this kind of shortcut could make your code much less readable for not a w

I'm only familiar with Ruby syntax, and not 100% fluent in it, but it seems to me like this kind of shortcut could make your code much less readable for not a whole lot of gain. I'm curious what the major benefit is over doing it 'the old fashioned way'.