Rails lists have .first and .second – is there a .hundredth or .sixty_nineth ?

Question

Is there a class or other extension for Rails that allows more than the first few elements in a series (and the last)? These work:

[2,45,2,14,53,23,634,346,34,46,643,634,346,34,34].fifth # -> 53 [2,45,2,14,53,23,634,346,34,46,643,634,346,34,34].last # -> 34 

so where is?

list.sixth list.hundredth  

Answer 1

There was a time when Rails added these, but there was a lot of controversy so most were removed. The only remnant of this experiment is Array#forty_two:

(1..100).to_a.forty_two # => 42 

Answer 2

You can just use square brackets:

list[6] list[100]