Remove substring from the string
How about str.gsub("subString", "")
Check out the Ruby Doc
You can use the slice method:
a = "foobar"
a.slice! "foo"
=> "foo"
a
=> "bar"
there is a non '!' version as well. More info can be seen in the documentation about other versions as well: http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#method-i-slice-21