February 9 - Customizing the Ruby Sort Method to Force an Element to the End of the Sorted Array
This guide walks through how to alter the built in Ruby sort method so that it forces a specific element to be placed at the end of a sorted array.
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Summary

Alter the built in sort method in Ruby so that it always places a specific element at the end of a sorted array.

Exercise Description

Given the alphabet in an array based form:

['a', 'b', 'c', ..., 'z']

Customize the sort method so that it places the letter k at the end of the array:

Expected Output

["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z", "k"]

Real World Usage

In order to build this solution, you will need to understand a number of important concepts, such as:

  • How to pass a block to the sort method
  • Working with the spaceship operator for comparisons

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