I usually use map
and compact
together along with my selection criteria as a postfix if
. compact
gets rid of the nils.
jruby-1.5.0 > [1,1,1,2,3,4].map{|n| n*3 if n==1}
=> [3, 3, 3, nil, nil, nil]
jruby-1.5.0 > [1,1,1,2,3,4].map{|n| n*3 if n==1}.compact
=> [3, 3, 3]