When I need to quickly test something out in Ruby, I will often reach for irb. However, there is an even quicker way to send a line of code to ruby for evaluation. Use the ruby binary with the -e flag followed by your line of ruby. For instance,
irb
ruby
-e
$ ruby -e 'puts Class.ancestors' [Class, Module, Object, Kernel, BasicObject]
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