Ruby: Titleize: How do I ignore smaller words like 'and', 'the', 'or, etc

Question

def titleize(string)
  string.split(\" \").map {|word| word.capitalize}.join(\" \")
end

This titleizes every single word, but how do I capture cert

Answer 1

Here is my little code. You can refractor it into a few lines.

def titleize(str)
    str.capitalize!  # capitalize the first word in case it is part of the no words array
    words_no_cap = ["and", "or", "the", "over", "to", "the", "a", "but"]
    phrase = str.split(" ").map {|word| 
        if words_no_cap.include?(word) 
            word
        else
            word.capitalize
        end
    }.join(" ") # I replaced the "end" in "end.join(" ") with "}" because it wasn't working in Ruby 2.1.1
  phrase  # returns the phrase with all the excluded words
end