How to create a symbol from a string that has whitespaces?

Question

I am creating a Ruby hash for movie names storage.

When the hash\'s keys are strings that contains whitespaces, it works just fine.

As in:

movies =

Answer 1

To make a symbol with spaces, enter a colon followed by a quoted String. For your example, you would enter:

movies = {:Avatar => 5, :'Lord of the rings' => 4, :Godfather => 4}