Creating a list of A-Z and 0-9 is very simple in Ruby. You may need to do this for numerous reasons but the writing of this tip came about when needing to create a memorable word interface, like that of banks.

Ruby has great list capabilities, for example listing 0-9 is as simple as:

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0..9.each do |n| 
  puts n
end

Doing so with the alphabet is just as easy:

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('A'..'Z').to_a.each do |l|
  puts l
end

To create an array of both A-Z and 0-9 together the following can be used:

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list = ('A'...'Z').to_a + (0..9).to_a

It’s that simple!