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Efficient way of evaluating an array of strings then add to an array in Ruby

I am looking for an efficient way of evaluating an array of strings against a series of rules and then adding them to another array. For example I have an array of strings: something a 1234 #gohere ...
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Use ruby's array sort() method, or add items in correct place with a binary lookup?

If I am loading a whole load of items (un-ordered words from a file or something) would it be more efficient to load them all to a Ruby array, and then use the built in sort! method or to do a binary ...
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ruby-idiomatic hashes vs arrays

So I am still fairly new to ruby, though I have noticed that it is very hard to create 2d-array and that hashes seem to be more of the go to data structure than arrays. I was wondering why the Ruby ...