Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create a nicer looking title. Titleize is meant for creating pretty output. It is not used in the Rails internals.

titleize is also aliased as as titlecase

Examples

"man from the boondocks".titleize #=> "Man From The Boondocks"
"x-men: the last stand".titleize #=> "X Men: The Last Stand"

Source Code

# File merb/core_ext/inflector.rb, line 157
def titleize(word)
  humanize(underscore(word)).gsub(/\b([a-z])/) { $1.capitalize }
end