In this article I would to share a few lesser known coding tips & tricks in Ruby language, this has helped me make my code shorter and write code quicker, nevertheless the more you know the higher the chances of finding out some trick yourself. Delete a directory tree Sometimes, we need to delete whole directories, and I have seen people resorting to the use of shell command for the purpose, but that is not needed. Ruby has a module fileutils which is better. Code: require 'fileutils' FileUtils.rm_r '/tmp/myTempDirectory/' Using Non-Strings or Symbols as Hash key This nice trick is very handy, checkout the example below: Code: is = { true => 'Yes', false => 'No' } p is[ 10 == 11 ] # -> No p is[ 10 > 9 ] # -> Yes Easy way to join array elements Did you know that you can join arrays using the * operator? Here's how: Code: p [1,2,3,4] * " | " # -> "1,2,3,4" p %w{pradeep anjali asha} * "," # -> "pradeep,anjali,asha" Applying the * operator to an array with a number will increase the size of the array, but passing a string will join the array using the passed string as delimiter. Use ranges for comparison of numbers Now you would need to combine multiple conditions with and/or, just use this: Code: number = 4 suffix = case number when 1 then "st" when 2 then "nd" when 3 then "rd" when 4..10 then "th" end puts number.to_s << suffix Interpolating Strings easily Interpolate format strings and substitute with values easily like this: Code: vars = %w{Anjali 3 Kolkata} puts "%s is %s and stays in %s" % vars