I know it was just used as an example, but in reality when I see code like this I think "I really don't want to reinvent URL parsing for this, I'll import the l

I know it was just used as an example, but in reality when I see code like this I think "I really don't want to reinvent URL parsing for this, I'll import the library for that instead," resulting in much cleaner code. But I do agree on keeping individual lines, if not entire statements, small and simple. The ruby chainsaw is a great tool for that. I find a chain of simple statements arranged in a flow to be more readable than using lots of intermediate variables.