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String

v2.1.0 - Show latest stable - Superclass: Object

No documentation available for this class.

Included modules

  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Access
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Conversions
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Filters
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Iterators
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::StartsEndsWith
  • ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Unicode

Files

  • activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/blank.rb
  • activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
  • activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/xchar.rb
  • activesupport/lib/active_support/json/encoders/string.rb

2Notes

constantize

eric_programmer · Jan 14, 20092 thanks

@ncancelliere - Instead use constantize which is provided as part of ActiveSupport. It is much easier. So:

mystring.constantize

Convert String to Class

ncancelliere · Jan 14, 2009

this example shows how you can take a string and # make it a class and then send it a method

Kernel.const_get(my_string.capitalize).select_options