Unindent HEREDOCs in Ruby 2.3
In Ruby 2.3 you can use <<~ instead of <<- to automatically remove indentation from a HEREDOCs:
str = <<~MESSAGE
Hello Universe!
This is me.
Bye!
MESSAGE
str will now be:
Hello Universe!
This is me.
Bye!
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