Closures In Ruby

Closures are a concept I learned about in school but I never fully wrapped my head around. Even the definition from the Wikipedia page sounds theoretical and hard to understand:a closure, [...] is a technique for implementing lexically scoped name binding in a language with first-class functions. Operationally, a closure is a record storing a function[a] together with an environment.[1]In this blog post, I explain how closures work in ruby by breaking down the Wikipedia definition of a closure.