Odd (or even) entries in a Ruby Array

by 
a = ('a'..'z').to_a

a.values_at(* a.each_index.select {|i| i.even?})
# => ["a", "c", "e", "g", "i", "k", "m", "o", "q", "s", "u", "w", "y"]

a.values_at(* a.each_index.select {|i| i.odd?})
# => ["b", "d", "f", "h", "j", "l", "n", "p", "r", "t", "v", "x", "z"]

So, as requested

class Array
  def odd_values
    self.values_at(* self.each_index.select {|i| i.odd?})
  end
  def even_values
    self.values_at(* self.each_index.select {|i| i.even?})
  end
end

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