How to create a symbol from a string that has whitespaces?

Question

I am creating a Ruby hash for movie names storage.

When the hash\'s keys are strings that contains whitespaces, it works just fine.

As in:

movies =

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you want to use symbols when you want spaces in the key values, but you can do that. You just can't do it using the : syntax...

{:Avatar => 5, :"Lord of the rings" => 4, :Godfather => 4}