From: "Rubén Medellín" Date: 2007-08-15T01:49:58+09:00 Subject: Re: change of Symbol to respond to intern? > Thoughts? irb(main):005:0> :FOO.to_sym => :FOO irb(main):006:0> "FOO".to_sym => :FOO Or you can always do something like class Symbol def intern self end end