We can shift elements off of the beginning of an array in Ruby using Array#shift.

{{code:php $fruit = array('apple', 'banana', 'kiwi'); $result = array_shift($fruit); print $result; // => 'apple'

var_export($fruit);
// => array(0 => 'banana', 1 => 'kiwi')

}}

{{code:ruby fruit = ["apple", "banana", "kiwi"] result = fruit.shift p result # => "apple"

p fruit
# ["banana", "kiwi"]

}}

{{related: array/array_unshift
array/array_push
array/array_pop }}