instance method
humanize
Ruby on Rails 4.1.16
Signature
humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, options = {})Capitalizes the first word, turns underscores into spaces, and strips a trailing ‘_id’ if present. Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.
The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the optional parameter capitalize to false. By default, this parameter is true.
humanize('employee_salary') # => "Employee salary"
humanize('author_id') # => "Author"
humanize('author_id', capitalize: false) # => "author"
Parameters
-
lower_case_and_underscored_wordreq -
optionsopt = {}
Source
# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 112
def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, options = {})
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}"
}
result.gsub!(/^\w/) { |match| match.upcase } if options.fetch(:capitalize, true)
result
end
Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb line 112
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