Simple way to capitalize the first letter of each word in a string using Ruby
by specialj on Mar.18, 2010, under Ruby On Rails
I am not infrequently looking to translate a string of either all lowercase or all uppercase characters to a string with the first character of each word capitalized. I decided to see if I could come up with a quick and easy way to do this in Ruby. This is what I came up with:
"STRING TO CAPITALIZE".gsub(/\b(\w+)/) {|x| x.capitalize}
=> "String To Capitalize"
"string to capitalize".gsub(/\b(\w+)/) {|x| x.capitalize}
=> "String To Capitalize"
It’s not perfect as I think it will choke on quotes but good enough for 5 minutes worth of work.
