Value as variable

Rails
1

a = “first”

b = “last”

i want to do

my_array.a
or
my_array.b

how would i do this?

instead of doing but to get the same result

my_array.frist
my_array.last

2

my_array.send(a)
or
my_array.send(b)

Julian.

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