Convert string to symbol-able in ruby

Question

Symbols are usually represented as such

:book_author_title

but if I have a string:

\"Book Author Title\"

Answer 1

Rails got ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections module that provides such methods. They're all worth looking at. For your example:

'Book Author Title'.parameterize.underscore.to_sym # :book_author_title