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Most of the magic of destructuring uses the splat (*) operator. ExampleResult / commenta, b = [0,1]a=0, b=1a, *rest = [0,1,2,3]a=0, rest=[1,2,3]a, * = [0,1,2,3]a=0   Equivalent to .first*, z = [0,1,2,3]z=3   Equivalent to .last

triples = [[1, 2, 3], [4, 5, 6], [7, 8, 9]] triples.each { |(first, second, third)| puts second } # 2 # 5 # 8 triples.map { |(first, *rest)| rest.join(' ') } # => ["2 3", "5 6", "8 9"]