accessing constants and create string at run time

gistfile1.rb

require 'benchmark'
require 'benchmark/ips'

QUOTED_TRUE = "'t'"

def quoted_true
  QUOTED_TRUE
end

def quoted_true_
  "'t'"
end

Benchmark.ips { |p|
  p.report("old quoted_true") do
    quoted_true_
  end
  p.report("new quoted_true") do
    quoted_true
  end
};


Calculating -------------------------------------
     old quoted_true     32325 i/100ms
     new quoted_true     33601 i/100ms
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     old quoted_true  4758373.5 (±32.0%) i/s -   18005025 in   4.994071s
     new quoted_true  7667214.5 (±4.0%)  i/s -   38237938 in   4.997284s