instance method `humanize`

Ruby on Rails 7.2.3

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

Compare with:

humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, capitalize: true, keep_id_suffix: false)

Tweaks an attribute name for display to end users.

Specifically, performs these transformations:

Applies human inflection rules to the argument.
Deletes leading underscores, if any.
Removes an “_id” suffix if present.
Replaces underscores with spaces, if any.
Downcases all words except acronyms.
Capitalizes the first word.

The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the :capitalize option to false (default is true).

The trailing ‘_id’ can be kept and capitalized by setting the optional parameter keep_id_suffix to true (default is false).

humanize('employee_salary')                  # => "Employee salary"
humanize('author_id')                        # => "Author"
humanize('author_id', capitalize: false)     # => "author"
humanize('_id')                              # => "Id"
humanize('author_id', keep_id_suffix: true)  # => "Author id"

If “SSL” was defined to be an acronym:

humanize('ssl_error') # => "SSL error"

Parameters

lower_case_and_underscored_word req
capitalize key = true
keep_id_suffix key = false

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb, line 135
    def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word, capitalize: true, keep_id_suffix: false)
      result = lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.dup

      inflections.humans.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.sub!(rule, replacement) }

      result.tr!("_", " ")
      result.lstrip!
      if !keep_id_suffix && lower_case_and_underscored_word&.end_with?("_id")
        result.delete_suffix!(" id")
      end

      result.gsub!(/([a-z\d]+)/i) do |match|
        match.downcase!
        inflections.acronyms[match] || match
      end

      if capitalize
        result.sub!(/\A\w/) do |match|
          match.upcase!
          match
        end
      end

      result
    end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb line 135 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in ActiveSupport::Inflector

Signature

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