Passing Blocks in Ruby methods

Today moving around Proc class in Ruby. I come across details about Ruby Blocks and How ruby methods receive block.

There are two way to receive blocks in Ruby methods.

1. Yield

Ruby’s yield statement gives control to a user specified block from the method’s body.

def test
   yield 5,10
   puts "You are in the method test"
   yield 100,200
end

test {|i,j| puts "You are in the block"}

OutPut:

You are in the block
You are in the method test
You are in the block

Even we  can pass parameters with the yield statement.

def test
   yield 5,10
   puts "You are in the method test"
   yield 100,200
end
test {|i,j| puts "You are in the block #{i} and #{j}"}

OutPut:

You are in the block 5 and 10
You are in the method test
You are in the block 100 and 200

2. Proc

If the last argument of a method is preceded by &(Object=Proc.new), then you can pass a block to this method and this block will be assigned to the last parameter. In case both * and & are present in the argument list, & should come later.

The & calls ‘to_proc’ on the object, and passes it as a block to the method.
In Rails, to_proc is implemented on Symbol, so that these two calls are equivalent:
something {|i| i.foo } and  something(&:foo)

def test(b=Proc.new)   
   b.call(10,20)
   puts "You are in the method test"
   yield 100,200
end
OR
def test(&b)
   p b    
   b.call(10,20)
   puts "You are in the method test"
   yield 100,200
end

test {|i,j| puts "You are in the block #{i} and #{j}"}

Output:

You are in the block 10 and 20
You are in the method test
You are in the block 100 and 200

I hope, it will give sense of how ruby methods call blocks and yield. You can get code from my github Passing-Blocks-in-Ruby-methods.