Ruby: How to concatenate array of arrays into one

You're looking for #flatten:

concatenated = array_of_arrays.flatten

By default, this will flatten the lists recursively. #flatten accepts an optional argument to limit the recursion depth – the documentation lists examples to illustrate the difference.


Or more generally:

array_of_arrays.reduce(:concat)

You can use flatten! method. eg. a = [ 1, 2, [3, [4, 5] ] ] a.flatten! #=> [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]