What is the best way to chop a string into chunks of a given length in Ruby?

Use String#scan:

>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.scan(/.{4}/)
=> ["abcd", "efgh", "ijkl", "mnop", "qrst", "uvwx"]
>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.scan(/.{1,4}/)
=> ["abcd", "efgh", "ijkl", "mnop", "qrst", "uvwx", "yz"]
>> 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.scan(/.{1,3}/)
=> ["abc", "def", "ghi", "jkl", "mno", "pqr", "stu", "vwx", "yz"]