so true

The road will be mastered by the walking one, so don't worry much.

hast.

Aah that's clever. I have one question though:

So if a condition is not met the first time a ternary statement is
called, and there's recurssion on the false side, would it ever go
through the true side again? (i.e. would it just keep going back to
the recursive point, which is the false side in this case?).

this is definitely the way to go.

to_proc shortcut. read more here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1217088/what-does-mapname-mean-in-ruby

Wtf I never would have thought of this one.

why I have never been the one who made the simplest solution????? Im so retarded....

this is reallllllly clever

This can hardly count as best practices, but sure it looks awesome :-D

Each time I made something simple in ruby, i discovering that someone made it simplier. Thank you.

That is one very long line of code.