Understanding yield and blocks in Ruby

Why do we need yield and blocks in Ruby?

Yield and blocks make your code DRYer. The same method can be used to work in different ways. The yield key word lets you replace with a block of code you choose making it more versatile to use. Instead of having 4 methods you will probably dealing with 1 method and 4 blocks. In case you want to extend the functionality you can create another block and use the same method.

The best explanation I have seen for this is in this article