inflection-js-rails

ActiveSupport style inflections for client-side development for the Rails Asset Pipeline

Installation

In your Gemfile, add this line:

gem 'inflection-js-rails'

Now run bundle install

Rails 3.0

This gem adds a single generator to Rails 3, inflectionjs:install.

Running the generator will copy over inflection.js to your assets to public/javascript/.

Rails 3.1 or greater

For Rails 3.1 and greater, the files will be added to the asset pipeline and available for you to use.

Simply the following to app/assets/javascripts/application.js:

//= require inflection

Javascript String Functions

The following functions will be available to each String instance:

String.pluralize(plural) == String
  renders a singular English language noun into its plural form
  normal results can be overridden by passing in an alternative

String.singularize(singular) == String
  renders a plural English language noun into its singular form
  normal results can be overridden by passing in an alterative

String.camelize(lowFirstLetter) == String
  renders a lower case underscored word into camel case
  the first letter of the result will be upper case unless you pass true
  also translates "/" into "::" (underscore does the opposite)

String.underscore() == String
  renders a camel cased word into words seperated by underscores
  also translates "::" back into "/" (camelize does the opposite)

String.humanize(lowFirstLetter) == String
  renders a lower case and underscored word into human readable form
  defaults to making the first letter capitalized unless you pass true

String.capitalize() == String
  renders all characters to lower case and then makes the first upper

String.dasherize() == String
  renders all underbars and spaces as dashes

String.titleize() == String
  renders words into title casing (as for book titles)

String.demodulize() == String
  renders class names that are prepended by modules into just the class

String.tableize() == String
  renders camel cased singular words into their underscored plural form

String.classify() == String
  renders an underscored plural word into its camel cased singular form

String.foreign_key(dropIdUbar) == String
  renders a class name (camel cased singular noun) into a foreign key
  defaults to seperating the class from the id with an underbar unless
  you pass true

String.ordinalize() == String
  renders all numbers found in the string into their sequence like "22nd"

Props

I didn't write any of the Javascript included within inflection-js.
All props goto Ryan Schuft.

Original project URL

Contributing

Check out the latest master to make sure the feature hasn't been implemented or the bug hasn't been fixed yet
Check out the issue tracker to make sure someone already hasn't requested it and/or contributed it
Fork the project
Start a feature/bugfix branch
Commit and push until you are happy with your contribution
Make sure to add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
Please try not to mess with the Rakefile, version, or history. If you want to have your own version, or is otherwise necessary, that is fine, but please isolate to its own commit so I can cherry-pick around it.