Separate list items by their class or kind_of in ruby

l = [1,2,3,"a","b","c"]

You could use group_by and then pull your arrays out of the resulting Hash:

>> by_class = l.group_by(&:class)
=> {Fixnum=>[1, 2, 3], String=>["a", "b", "c"]}
>> a = by_class[Fixnum]
=> [1, 2, 3]
>> b = by_class[String]
=> ["a", "b", "c"]

If you know that you only have Fixnums and Strings then you could use partition:

>> a, b = *l.partition { |o| o.is_a? Fixnum }
=> [[1, 2, 3], ["a", "b", "c"]]
>> a
=> [1, 2, 3]
>> b
=> ["a", "b", "c"]