Short question:
What is 'translate' word doing and why it's colored as special in my IDE?
Long question:
I am doing the Odin Project, and code in 04_pig_latin Ruby and RSpec exercise should look like this:
def translate(string)
# some code
end
Per the spec which I need to pass:
describe "#translate" do
it "translates a word beginning with a vowel" do
s = translate("apple")
expect(s).to eq("appleay")
end
end
In my Cloud9 IDE the word translate is colored blue (like require or render), so I assume that I can't use it as a method name and will need to change the given RSpec test to pass it. However, I saw that others doing this task are naming this method translate without any issues.
I haven't found anything about this "keyword" what could make it unique, I don't know what it's really doing, and don't know whether it's uniqueness comes from Ruby or Cloud9.
Each Ruby syntax highlighting library often includes common phrases that are used in things like Rails. For example, belongs_to, while not a special keyword in a Ruby sense, is very common in Rails applications so it's often highlighted.
translate might be a special phrase as well as it's used by a lot of I18N libraries.
The only way to find out for sure is to look at the rules for syntax highlighting your editor uses. Usually there's a list of special method names in there.