Class: String

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
show all
Defined in:
lib/beef/core_ext/string/titleise.rb,
lib/beef/core_ext/string/to_boolean.rb

Constant Summary collapse

IGNORE = 
%w( the is to a an and as at but by for if in of on or via )
REG_IGNORE = 
IGNORE.join('|')

Instance Method Summary collapse

Instance Method Details

#titleise ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/beef/core_ext/string/titleise.rb', line 5

def titleise
  result = ""
  self.gsub(/[_-]/, ' ').split(/( [:.;?!][ ] | (?:[ ]|^)["“] )/x).each do |substring|
    substring.gsub!(/ \b( [[:alpha:]] [[:lower:].'’]* )\b /x) do |word|
      # Ignore words that contain dots - e.g urls
      (word =~ / [[:alpha:]] [.] [[:alpha:]] /x) ? word : word.capitalize
    end #gsub!

    # Downcase the list of words to ignore
    substring.gsub!(/\b(#{REG_IGNORE})\b/io) { |word| word.downcase }

    # If the first or last words are in the ignore list then capetlise them regardless.
    substring.gsub!(/\A([[:punct:]]*)(#{REG_IGNORE})\b/io) { |word| $1 + $2.capitalize }
    substring.gsub!(/\b(#{REG_IGNORE})([[:punct:]]*)\Z/io) { |word| $1.capitalize + $2 }
    
    result += substring
  end

  # Special case "'s"
  result.gsub!(/(['’])S\b/, '\1s')
  result
end

#titleise! ⇒ Object 



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# File 'lib/beef/core_ext/string/titleise.rb', line 28

def titleise!
  self.replace(self.titleise)
end

#to_boolean ⇒ Object Also known as: to_b 



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# File 'lib/beef/core_ext/string/to_boolean.rb', line 3

def to_boolean
  case self.downcase
  when 'false', '0', 'no', 'nil', 'null' then false
  else true
  end  
end