what is the functionality of “&: ” operator in ruby? [duplicate]

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There isn’t a &: operator in Ruby. What you are seeing is the & operator applied to a :symbol.

In a method argument list, the & operator takes its operand, converts it to a Proc object if it isn’t already (by calling to_proc on it) and passes it to the method as if a block had been used.

my_proc = Proc.new { puts "foo" }

my_method_call(&my_proc) # is identical to:
my_method_call { puts "foo" }

So the question now becomes “What does Symbol#to_proc do?”, and that’s easy to see in the Rails documentation:

Turns the symbol into a simple proc, which is especially useful for enumerations. Examples:

# The same as people.collect { |p| p.name }
people.collect(&:name)

# The same as people.select { |p| p.manager? }.collect { |p| p.salary }
people.select(&:manager?).collect(&:salary)

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