Lint-SymbolConversion.md

Pattern: Use of symbol conversion

Issue: -

Description

This rule checks for uses of literal strings converted to a symbol where a literal symbol could be used instead.

Examples

# bad
'string'.to_sym
:symbol.to_sym
'underscored_string'.to_sym
:'underscored_symbol'
'hyphenated-string'.to_sym

# good
:string
:symbol
:underscored_string
:underscored_symbol
:'hyphenated-string'

Further Reading

• RuboCop - Lint/SymbolConversion