[Rails] Re: script or utility to transform a string w embedded spaces into a sym

thanks , part of the solution as per Michael's patch

On 19 avr, 00:38, Philip Hallstrom <phi...@pjkh.com> wrote:
> On Apr 18, 2011, at 3:09 PM, Erwin wrote:
>
> > I need to transform strings like "Instructor ID"  or "Lovely Ice tree"
> > into sym  :instructor_id  , :lovely_ice_tree
> > I tried to do the following :
> > downcase all string components the unique the spaces and replace w an
> > underscore
>
> > is there a better and faster way to do it ?
>
> string.downcase.tr(' ', '_')
>
> maybe.

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