Symbols are usually represented as such
:book_author_title
but if I have a string:
"Book Author Title"
is there a built in way in rails/ruby to convert it into a symbol where I can use the :
notation without just doing a raw string regex replace?
Best Answer
Rails got
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections
module that provides such methods. They're all worth looking at. For your example: