You don't need to count array offsets by hand!

Working with arrays in Ruby. Don't do this:

index = 0
for item in array
  index += 1
  puts "Item #{index}: #{item.inspect}"
end

Do this instead:

array.each_with_index do |item, index|
  puts "Item #{index}: #{item.inspect}"
end

There are a bunch of handy methods like this. Read the Enumerable documentation and make your code that little bit more readable.

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published
2009-10-02
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