Class: String

Inherits:

Object

• Object
• String

Defined in:

lib/restfulx/configuration.rb

Overview

Interestingly enough there’s no way to just upper-case or down-case first letter of a given string. Ruby’s own capitalize actually downcases all the rest of the characters in the string We patch the class to add our own implementation.

Instance Method Summary

• #dcfirst ⇒ Object

  Down-case first character of a string leaving the rest of it intact.

• #ucfirst ⇒ Object

  Upper-case first character of a string leave the rest of the string intact.

Instance Method Details

#dcfirst ⇒ Object

Down-case first character of a string leaving the rest of it intact

# File 'lib/restfulx/configuration.rb', line 24

def dcfirst
  self[0,1].downcase + self[1..-1]
end

#ucfirst ⇒ Object

Upper-case first character of a string leave the rest of the string intact

# File 'lib/restfulx/configuration.rb', line 19

def ucfirst
  self[0,1].capitalize + self[1..-1]
end