title: What exactly are anonymous functions?
body: <p>In my journey of a thousand lines of Ruby, I'm having a really hard time with the concept of anonymous functions. Wikipedia <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_functions" rel="noreferrer">says something about</a> there being some nameless soul in the code and it submitting to a higher order, but my understanding ends there. </p>
  
  <p>Or in other words, how would I (when I understand it) explain anonymous functions to my mom?</p>