How do I take a string and convert it to lower or upper case in Ruby?
Ruby has a few methods for changing the case of strings. To convert to lowercase, use downcase
:
"hello James!".downcase #=> "hello james!"
Similarly, upcase
capitalizes every letter and capitalize
capitalizes the first letter of the string but lowercases the rest:
"hello James!".upcase #=> "HELLO JAMES!"
"hello James!".capitalize #=> "Hello james!"
"hello James!".titleize #=> "Hello James!"
If you want to modify a string in place, you can add an exclamation point to any of those methods:
string = "hello James!"
string.downcase!
string #=> "hello james!"
Refer to the documentation for String for more information.