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Peter Kim Frank Subscriber for CodeNewbie

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Boost Your Ruby Methods with Yield: A Flexible Approach to Dynamic Coding

Hey Ruby developers! Did you know that you can use the "yield" keyword in your methods to make them more flexible? By calling "yield" in your method, you can execute a block of code passed in by the caller. This can be especially useful for creating dynamic methods that can adapt to different situations.

Here's an example:

def my_method
  puts "Before yield"
  yield
  puts "After yield"
end

my_method { puts "Inside yield" }
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And the output:

Before yield
Inside yield
After yield

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Give it a try and let us know what you think! Share your examples in the comments.

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Lucretius Biah

At least you should add examples, I don't understand the problem you are trying to solve

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Erin A Olinick

Updated with example! 😄

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Lucretius Biah

What about syntax highlighting😂

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Erin A Olinick

Maybe that's part of the challenge! lol Where should the highlighting be?

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Lucretius Biah • Edited

Should be before the code blocks,
Like this

```langauge
 Code here
```
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Erin A Olinick

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Candace Eckels

Nice!

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Vale

Just be sure to make it yield if block_given? unless you want some nice LocalJumpError