Why does Rails titlecase add a space to a name?

Question

Why does the titlecase mess up the name? I have:

John Mark McMillan

and it turns it into:

>> \"john mark McM         


        

Answer 1

If you want to handle the case where someone has entered JOHN CAPSLOCK JOE as well as the others, I combined this one:

class String
  def proper_titlecase
    if self.titleize.split.length == self.split.length
      self.titleize
    else
      self.split(" ").collect{|word| word[0] = word[0].upcase; word}.join(" ")
    end
  end
end

Depends if you want that kinda logic on a String method ;)