Ruby Procs! How to create them? How to use them? What they do? Procs are objects that encapsulate blocks of code, which can be stored in variables and passed around to other methods or Procs, where they can be called. There are several ways to create a Proc, and even some that use Lambda semantics, but Lambdas is a topic for the next post. Here's how to create Procs: Using Proc.new: proc1 = Proc.new {|x| x**2 } Using the shorthand proc: proc2 = proc {|x| x**2 } Getting the Proc from a method ret