Question

I have a list of titles that I am pulling from the database sorted alphabetically ie:

[
  'Morning Glory',
  'Red',
  'Skyline',
  'The Next Three Days'
]

What would be the best way to re-sort this list of titles ignoring “The” so that it would become:

[
  'Morning Glory',
  'The Next Three Days',
  'Red',
  'Skyline'
]

Answer 1

titles = ["Morning Glory", "Red", "Skyline", "The Next Three Days"]
titles.sort_by {|w| w.sub(/^the /i,"")}
=> ["Morning Glory", "The Next Three Days", "Red", "Skyline"]