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@@ -2156,6 +2156,19 @@ This method is an alias of `Array#<<`.
NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/array/prepend_and_append.rb`.
+### Extracting
+
+The method `extract!` removes and returns the elements for which the block returns a true value.
+If no block is given, an Enumerator is returned instead.
+
+```ruby
+numbers = [0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9]
+odd_numbers = numbers.extract! { |number| number.odd? } # => [1, 3, 5, 7, 9]
+numbers # => [0, 2, 4, 6, 8]
+```
+
+NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/array/extract.rb`.
+
### Options Extraction
When the last argument in a method call is a hash, except perhaps for a `&block` argument, Ruby allows you to omit the brackets: