I needed to sort string alphabetically in ruby.

There is a handy chars method on string that converts a string to char array

#Case Sensitive
my_string.chars.sort.join

# Case Insensitive
str.chars.sort{|a,b| a.casecmp(b)}.join
# or
str.chars.sort_by(&:downcase).join

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