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The output of which -a ruby ends up being a path per line for every 'ruby' executable found within the user's PATH. This is an excellent type of output to pipe into another command—or series of them.

which -a ruby | while read line; do echo $line; echo `$line --version`; done

If that code were expanded out it would look like:

while read line;
do
    echo $line;
    echo `$line --version`;
done

Sadly this is basically my first attempt to use piping in any meaningful way.