The $ is just a character in the string. Is there a reason you think it would need to be escaped?

How come the $ does not need to be escaped in this solution?

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This is the so called "ternary operator":
http://www.w3resource.com/ruby/ruby-ternary-operator.php

condition ? something : something-else

is a shortcut for:

if condition
  something
else
  something-else
end

what does ? and : mean in ruby

Nice one, but I believe the description could use some improvements - specifically, I think it should be more specific about the argument names.

There's no information indicating whether the argument names should be extracted from the value (as the usage example might imply) or fixed arg names should be used (as the test cases seem to indicate).

I'm guessing the latter was the original intent, but seeing how most solutions focus on parsing the values, the description definitely is not clear enough in this regard.