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A practical refactoring journey addressing Ruby 3.4's frozen string literal warnings by replacing mutable string concatenation with an immutable array-based approach, then evolving it into a dedicated single-purpose Message class. The solution eliminates primitive obsession, hides implementation details, supports flexible delimiters, and enables clean composition through Ruby's implicit string conversion protocol.

The Joy of a Single-Purpose Class: From String Mutation to Message Composition

Ruby has both mutable and immutable strings

Problem with string literal mutation in our code