Rails - Using %W

Question

I have the following which works well:

def steps     %w[hello billing confirmation] end  steps.first 

But I want to do this:

  def step_title     %w['Upload a photo' 'Billing Info' 'Confirmation Screen']   end  steps.first 

How does %w allow for that? I tried a google search but google is weak with these types of characters.

Thanks

Answer 1

%w creates an "array of words," and uses whitespace to separate each value. Since you want to separate on another value (in this case, whitespace outside sets of quotation marks), just use a standard array:

['Upload a photo', 'Billing Info', 'Confirmation Screen'] 

Answer 2

%w() is a "word array" - the elements are delimited by spaces.

There are other % things:

%r() is another way to write a regular expression.

%q() is another way to write a single-quoted string (and can be multi-line, which is useful)

%Q() gives a double-quoted string

%x() is a shell command.