What are the Ruby Gotchas a newbie should be warned about?

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I have recently learned the Ruby programming language, and all in all it is a good language. But I was quite surprised to see that it was not as simple as I had expected. More precisely, the "rule of least-surprise" did not seem very respected to me (of course this is quite subjective). For example:

x = true and false
puts x  # displays true!

and the famous:

puts "zero is true!" if 0  # zero is true!

What are the other "Gotchas" you would warn a Ruby newbie about?

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