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Well, okay, yes, we already know Ruby is expressive. And, if I know you, you’ll see a drop of awesomeness in:

 BOARD_MEMBERS = ['Jan', Julie', 'Archie', 'Stewick']
 HISTORIANS = ['Braith', 'Dewey', 'Eduardo']

 case name
 when *BOARD_MEMBERS
   "You're on the board!  A congratulations is in order." 
 when *HISTORIANS
   "You are busy chronicling every deft play." 
 end

I was refactoring a parser and it occured to me that I could just do a when *tokens.keys at one point. Ruby treats it just like a list of conditions. Consider Olympic ice dancing out-graced!