Rails 6 adds including & excluding method on Enumerables

Rails 6 added including and excluding on Array and Enumerable.

Array#including and Enumerable#including

including can be used to extend a collection in a more object oriented way. It does not mutate the original collection but returns a new collection which is the concatenation of the given collections.

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2# multiple arguments can be passed to including
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4> > [1, 2, 3].including(4, 5)
5> > => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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7# another enumerable can also be passed to including
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9> > [1, 2, 3].including([4, 5])
10> > => [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
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12> > %i(apple orange).including(:banana)
13> > => [:apple, :orange, :banana]
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15# return customers whose country_code is IN along with the prime customers
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17> > Customer.where(country_code: "IN").including(Customer.where(prime: true))
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Array#excluding and Enumerable#excluding

It returns a copy of the enumerable excluding the given collection.

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2# multiple arguments can be passed to including
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4> > [11, 22, 33, 44].excluding([22, 33])
5> > => [11, 44]
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7> > %i(ant bat cat).excluding(:bat)
8> > => [:ant, :cat]
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10# return all prime customers except those who haven't added their phone
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12> > Customer.where(prime: true).excluding(Customer.where(phone: nil))
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Array#excluding and Enumerable#excluding replaces the already existing method without which in Rails 6 is now aliased to excluding.

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2> > [11, 22, 33, 44].without([22, 33])
3> > => [11, 44]
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excluding and including helps to shrink or extend a collection without using any operator.

Check out the commit for more details on this.