On 18 April 2011 23:09, Erwin <[email protected]> wrote:
> I need to transform strings like "Instructor ID" or "Lovely Ice tree"
> into sym :instructor_id , :lovely_ice_tree
>
> is there a better and faster way to do it ?
I have a little monkey-patch called "dehumanize" which is *almost*
what you want:
module ActiveSupport::Inflector
# does the opposite of humanize.... mostly. Basically does a
# space-substituting .underscore
def dehumanize(string_value)
result = string_value.to_s.dup
result.downcase.gsub(/ +/,'_')
end
end
class String
def dehumanize
ActiveSupport::Inflector.dehumanize(self)
end
end
you could then call:
String.dehumanize.to_sym
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