Ruby capitalize every word first letter

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I need to make the first character of every word uppercase  and make the rest lowercase     manufacturer MFA BRAND first upcase   is only setting the first letter uppercase  but I need this   ALFA ROMEO   gt  Alfa Romeo AUDI   gt  Audi BMW   gt  Bmw ONETWO THREE FOUR   gt  Onetwo Three Four

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If you are trying to capitalize the first letter of each word in an array you can simply put this    array name map  amp  capitalize

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hello world  split each  i  i capitalize   join

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Look into the String capitalize method   http   www ruby-doc org core-1 9 3 String html method-i-capitalize

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Another option is to use a regex and gsub  which takes a block    one TWO three foUR  gsub   w     amp  capitalize

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In Rails    kirk douglas  titleize   gt   Kirk Douglas   this also works for  kirk douglas    w o Rails    kirk douglas  split         map  amp  capitalize  join        OBJECT IT OUT def titleize str    str split         map  amp  capitalize  join      end   OR MONKEY PATCH IT class String     def titleize     self split         map  amp  capitalize  join        end end   w o Rails  load rails s ActiveSupport to patch  titleize method to String   require  active support core ext   kirk douglas  titleize    gt   Kirk Douglas     some  string use cases handled by  titleize    kirk douglas   kirk douglas   kirk-douglas   kirkDouglas   KirkDouglas     titleize gotchas  Rails s titleize will convert things like dashes and underscores into spaces and can produce other unexpected results  especially with case-sensitive situations as pointed out by  JamesMcMahon    hEy lOok  titleize    gt   H Ey Lo Ok    because it is meant to handle camel-cased code like    kirkDouglas  titleize    gt   Kirk Douglas    To deal with this edge case you could clean your string with  downcase first before running  titleize  Of course if you do that you will wipe out any camelCased word separations    kirkDouglas  downcase titleize    gt   Kirkdouglas

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try this   puts  one TWO three foUR  split map  amp  capitalize  join          gt  One Two Three Four   or  puts  one TWO three foUR  split map  amp  capitalize

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I used this for a similar problem   catherine mc-nulty jos  phina  capitalize gsub    s  w       stuff  stuff upcase    This handles the following weird cases I saw trying the previous answers   non-word characters like - accented characters common in names like    capital characters in the middle of the string

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hello world  titleize which should output  Hello World

[ruby] Ruby capitalize every word first letter

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