That code is legal Ruby! If you ran it, you'd see 8. How? There's a tale to tell.. The String with the Golden Space I was on IRC in #nwrug enjoying festive cheer with fellow Northern Rubyists when ysr23 presented a curious problem. He was using a Twitter library that returned a tweet, "@twellyme film", in a string called reply. The problem was that despite calling reply.split, the string refused t