titleize --->>
def titleize(word)
humanize(underscore(word)).gsub(/\b('?[a-z])/) { $1.capitalize }
end
output:
"at&t" --> "At&T" (not the desired output)
"man-eater --> "Man Eater" (not the desired output)
"at&t".split(' ').map {|w| w.capitalize }.join(' ') ---> "At&t" seems
to be better approach.
--
Amit
On May 26, 4:56 pm, Benjamin Curtis <[email protected]> wrote:
> Indeed... I got wrapped around the axle of re-opening classes in Ruby and
> forgot to mention the Rails extensions. :)
> --
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>
> On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On May 26, 2009, at 11:48 AM, JannaB wrote:
>
> > > I am trying to capitalize first letter of each word in a string of
> > > words, which is in a given string. I see there is a reference to this
> > > at:
>
> > String#titleize is your friend...
>
> > >> "this is some string. here is another! a question? oh my.".titleize
> > => "This Is Some String. Here Is Another! A Question? Oh My."
>
> >http://www.java2s.com/Code/Ruby/String/Addtwomethodtostringclasstocap...
>
> > > which states to add two method to string class to capitalize first
> > > letter
>
> > > class String
> > > def capitalize_first_letter
> > > self[0].chr.capitalize + self[1, size]
> > > end
>
> > > def capitalize_first_letter!
> > > unless self[0] == (c = self[0,1].upcase[0])
> > > self[0] = c
> > > self
> > > end
> > > end
> > > end
>
> > > My question is, if I create this String class -- what is it? Is it a
> > > model? A helper? Where in the world would you put this creature in a
> > > Rails framework? Thanks, Janna
>
>
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