mruby-symbol-ext

This gem extends mruby's Symbol class with additional useful methods.

Methods

Here are the methods added to the Symbol class:

capitalize

• call-seq: sym.capitalize -> symbol
• Returns a new symbol with the first character converted to uppercase and the remainder to lowercase. Equivalent to sym.to_s.capitalize.intern.

downcase

• call-seq: sym.downcase -> symbol
• Returns a new symbol with all characters converted to lowercase. Equivalent to sym.to_s.downcase.intern.

upcase

• call-seq: sym.upcase -> symbol
• Returns a new symbol with all characters converted to uppercase. Equivalent to sym.to_s.upcase.intern.

casecmp(other_symbol)

• call-seq: sym.casecmp(other) -> -1, 0, +1 or nil
• Performs a case-insensitive comparison between two symbols. Returns -1, 0, or +1 if other_symbol is a symbol. Returns nil if other_symbol is not a symbol.

casecmp?(other_symbol)

• call-seq: sym.casecmp?(other) -> true, false, or nil
• Returns true if the receiver and other_symbol are equal after case folding, false if they are not equal. Returns nil if other_symbol is not a symbol.

empty?

• call-seq: sym.empty? -> true or false
• Returns true if the symbol's string representation is empty (i.e., :""), false otherwise.

length / size

• call-seq:
  • sym.length -> integer
  • sym.size -> integer
• Returns the length of the symbol's string representation. size is an alias for length.

Symbol.all_symbols (Conditional)

• call-seq: Symbol.all_symbols => array
• Returns an array of all symbols currently in mruby's symbol table.
• Note: This method is only available if mruby is compiled with the MRB_USE_ALL_SYMBOLS define.