Why does Rails titlecase add a space to a name?

Question

Why does the titlecase mess up the name? I have:

John Mark McMillan

and it turns it into:

>> \"john mark McM         


        

Answer 1

Hmm, that's odd.. but you could write a quick custom regex to avoid using that method.

class String
    def custom_titlecase
        self.gsub(/\b\w/) { |w| w.upcase }
    end
end

"John Mark McMillan".custom_titlecase    # => "John Mark McMillan"

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