Strip Leading Whitespace from Heredocs in Ruby - Anti-pattern

Update: Starting in Ruby 2.3 this can be done natively with the “squiggly” heredoc. Using a tilde instead of a hyphen will strip the leading whitespace. A heredoc in programming is short for “here document”. It’s a way to declare a file or long, multiline string inline. Formatting is preserved and quotes are ignored, which means strings with quotes in them don’t have to be escaped. For example, if