Choosing whether you use { ... } or do ... end around your blocks is more than just a stylistic choice in Ruby. It also affects the way that an operation will be executed because your choice also specifies the Operation Precedence to use. In a nutshell, a block curly braces has higher precedence than a block with do/end.

Consider this example from a great Stackoverflow post:

f param { do_something() }

will execute differently than

f param do do_something() end

The former will bind the block to param, while the latter will bind the block to f. The more you know…