What does << do?

Ruby
#1

Reading a sample program that says:
@rooms << Room.new(reference, name, description, connections)

What does the “<<” part do? Thanks!

#2

Hi,

imho << reads Room.new(reference, name, description, connections) into
@rooms

Regards

Sebastian B.
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#3

It adds an instance of Room to the @rooms array

#4

It places a new room in @rooms. Imagine this

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#5

The answer is, “it depends on what @rooms is”. In Ruby, (almost)
everything’s an object, so when you write “@rooms << …”, you’re
actually invoking the “<<” method on “@rooms”.

If @rooms is an Array, for example, then << will append to the end of
the array, which is probably what’s happening here.

~ jf

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