Very useful helper if you want to keep your environment clean, useful for testing or if you have to require something that has lots of side effects or memory leaks.

Usage

result = fork_and_return do
  require 'some_lib_with_side_effects'
  leak_some_memory
  get_stuff_done
end
puts result

Code

# https://grosser.it/2012/07/15/return-values-from-fork-fork_and_return/
def fork_and_return(&block)
  require 'parallel'
  Parallel.map([0], &block).first
end