[‘fodfsafdfsdfso’,‘bar’,‘bazzzzzz’].sort_by { |s| s.length }.pop
The beauty of a one line solution 
also…what is this about:
max_by(&:length)
Dave.
Daniel M. wrote:
Why build up a separate hash structure?
It’s simpler to my eyes. It’s also (admittedly unintuitively) faster
though.
Here’s a quick test with your version, my original, and another going
off your idea, but I tried to simplify it a bit:
bm.report { puts a.max_by3 &:size }
end
I couldn’t tell you why the 3rd is so much faster than the first. Just
goes to prove the old programming adage though: “Optimizing before
Profiling is a waste of time.”
Not that this counts as serious profiling of course.