instance method `humanize`

Ruby on Rails 4.0.13

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.

'employee_salary'.humanize # => "Employee salary"
'author_id'.humanize       # => "Author"

Parameters

lower_case_and_underscored_word req

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 107
    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup
      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.sub!(rule, replacement) }
      result.gsub!(/_id$/, "")
      result.tr!('_', ' ')
      result.gsub(/([a-z\d]*)/i) { |match|
        "#{inflections.acronyms[match] || match.downcase}"
      }.gsub(/^\w/) { $&.upcase }
    end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb line 107 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in ActiveSupport::Inflector

Signature

Parameters