From: Jeremy Wells <jwells@...>
Date: 2006-12-22T00:20:38+09:00
Subject: Re: Symbols vs Strings

Devin Mullins wrote:
> matt wrote:
>
>> How do I know that I need to use :blah, and not some other symbol ?
> Convention. You're just passing a Hash, and Rails cares about certain 
> key/value pairs in that Hash.
I think that rails basically converts all hash keys into symbols 
automatically using Hash.symbolize_keys!, so you could pass a string or 
a symbol, but passing a symbol would be faster.