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:

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Answer 1

You can also use the backslash to escape spaces:

%w@foo\ bar bang@

is the same as:

[ 'foo bar', 'bang' ]

In your example I wouldn't use the %w notation, because it's not that clear.

PS. I do like mixing the delimiter characters, just to annoy team members :) Like this:

%w?foo bar?
%w|foo bar|
%w\foo bar\
%w{foo bar}