instance method `humanize`

Ruby on Rails 3.1.12

Since v2.2.3

Available in: v2.2.3 v2.3.18 v3.0.20 v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

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humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)

Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a trailing “_id”, if any. Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.

Examples:

"employee_salary" # => "Employee salary"
"author_id"       # => "Author"

Parameters

lower_case_and_underscored_word req

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb, line 165
    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup

      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
      result.gsub(/_id$/, "").gsub(/_/, " ").capitalize
    end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb line 165 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in ActiveSupport::Inflector

Signature

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