Ruby Rebus! Part Deux

It’s been ~18 months since my first Ruby Rebus challenge and, frankly, that’s just too long to ask y’alls nerds to wait. Wait no more! I’ve dreamt up 15 brand spankin’ new rebuses¹ for your guessing pleasure.

Last round I only picked movies from IMDB’s Top 250 list. This time the tie that binds these movies is that I’ve seen them and I like them.

The other big change this time around is instant gratification. Instead of a follow-up post with the answers, just click the button under each rebus once you’ve figured it out (or given up)! Enough intro,

Rebus #1

throw :me if person.is_a? ConMan

Reveal Answer

Rebus #2

expect(Game).to receive(:play)

Reveal Answer

Gotta pull out your RSpec to solve this one.

Rebus #3

[].method :each

Reveal Answer

If you were thinking The Enumerator, you may have just stumbled upon Schwarzenegger’s next flick…

Rebus #4

"CATCGTAATGACGGCCT".dup

Reveal Answer

This one would be better if you couldn’t practically see the name in the string.

Rebus #5

[NoMethodError, NameError]

Reveal Answer

Is it just me or do NoMethodError and NameError account for 95% of all errors?

Rebus #6

[Float.instance_method(:ceil), Float.instance_method(:floor)]

Reveal Answer

At first I included the round method, but thought that’d be too easy.

Rebus #7

Actor = Struct.new :movie, :first_name
Actor.new "Argo", "John"
Actor.new "Monsters, Inc.", "John"
Actor.new "The Big Lebowski", "John"

Reveal Answer

It’s a few John Goodman movies. A few Goodman. Get it?!

Rebus #8

class Payment
  delegate :give, to: :other
end

Reveal Answer

This code requires Rails to actually execute, but hopefully it will never actually execute.

Rebus #9

class Object
  def initialize
    @afraid = true
  end
end

Reveal Answer

Object is Ruby’s primordial ooze.

Rebus #10

%i(stop danger yield detour)

Reveal Answer

Symbols. Signs. You see what I did there.

Rebus #11

if s == "AZ"
  raise
end

Reveal Answer

The challenge here was having something represent Arizona without being obvious. I may have failed at that.

Rebus #12

60.times { sleep 1 } && exit

Reveal Answer

Okay let’s ride

Rebus #13

begin
  [darren, judith].join
rescue
end

Reveal Answer

Judith escaped. DURR!

Rebus #14

class Time; def kill; abort; end; end
t = Time.now
t.kill

Reveal Answer

This code is utterly asinine.

Rebus #15

"スカーレット".encode "ascii" rescue ""

Reveal Answer

This one is pretty rad, if I do say so myself.

Which was your favorite? Least favorite? How many of the 15 did you get right? Let me know in the comments!

or is it rebi? ↩︎