Formatting Full name in Ruby on Rails

Question

In below example, the middle_name is optional. Any name without middle_name it takes an extra blank space. Please anyone make correction following method.

  def name
    "#{first_name} #{middle_name} #{last_name}".titleize
  end

Answer 1

You can try this:

def name
  [first_name, middle_name, last_name].select(&:present?).join(' ').titleize
end

Answer 2

Use this instead

def name
  [first_name, middle_name, last_name].reject(&:blank?).join(' ').titleize
end