What does the Ruby method ‘to_sym’ do?

to_sym converts a string to a symbol. For example, “a”.to_sym becomes :a. It’s not specific to Rails; vanilla Ruby has it as well. It looks like in some versions of Ruby, a symbol could be converted to and from a Fixnum as well. But irb from Ruby 1.9.2-p0, from ruby-lang.org, doesn’t allow that unless you add your own to_sym method to Fixnum. I’m … Read more

How to concatenate string and int in C?

Strings are hard work in C. The 12 is enough bytes to store the text “pre_”, the text “_suff”, a string of up to two characters (“99”) and the NULL terminator that goes on the end of C string buffers. This will tell you how to use snprintf, but I suggest a good C book!

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