Is there a pluralize function in Ruby NOT Rails?
Actually all you need to do is
require 'active_support/inflector'and that will extend the String type.
you can then do
"MyString".pluralizewhich will return
"MyStrings"for 2.3.5 try:
require 'rubygems'require 'active_support/inflector'should get it, if not try
sudo gem install activesupportand then the requires.
Inflector is overkill for most situations.
def x(n, singular, plural=nil) if n == 1 "1 #{singular}" elsif plural "#{n} #{plural}" else "#{n} #{singular}s" endendPut this in common.rb, or wherever you like your general utility functions and...
require "common" puts x(0, 'result') # 0 resultsputs x(1, 'result') # 1 resultputs x(2, 'result') # 2 resultsputs x(0, 'match', 'matches') # 0 matchesputs x(1, 'match', 'matches') # 1 match puts x(2, 'match', 'matches') # 2 matches
I personally like the linguistics gem that is definitely not rails related.
# from it's frontpagerequire 'linguistics'Linguistics.use :en"box".en.plural #=> "boxes""mouse".en.plural #=> "mice"# etc