Just found this Ruby Quicktip for getting a random element from an array. There are two ways you can do this.

Given an array @array

@array = [1,2,3,4,5]

You can obtain a random element from the array with the 'choice' method:

@array.choice
=> 3

You can also do it with the 'sample' method

@array.sample
=> 2

With the 'sample' method you can specify the number of random elements you want:

@array.sample(2)

=> [4,1]

Happy coding.