A collection of the String Object methods and functions.

Use them like any other string method.

"AnimalCracker".pluralize()

By default, camelize converts strings to UpperCamelCase. If the argument to camelize is set to true then camelize produces lowerCamelCase.

str.camelize();

1. lower - (boolean) if true, will return lowerCamelCase.

• (string) The camelized string.

"active_record".camelize(2); // "ActiveRecord"
"post_category".camelize(true); // "postCategory"

Create a class name from a plural table name like Rails does for table names to models. Note that this returns a string and not a Class.

str.classify();

• (string) The classifyd string.

"egg_and_hams".classify(); // "EggAndHam"
"posts".classify(); // "Post"

Replaces underscores and spaces with dashes in the string.

str.dasherize();

• (string) The dasherized string.

"puni_puni".dasherize(); // "puni-puni"
"puni puni".dasherize(); // "puni-puni"

Creates a foreign key name from a class name.

str.foreign_key([dontUnderScoreId]);

1. dontUnderScoreId - (boolean) - If true, will omit the '_'.

• (string) The foreign_key-ed string.

"Message".foreign_key(); // "message_id"
"Message".foreign_key(false); // "messageid"

Capitalizes the first word and turns underscores into spaces and strips a trailing "_id", if any. Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.

str.humanize();

• (string) The humanize-ed string.

"employee_salary".humanize(); // "Employee salary"
"author_id".humanize(); // "Author"

Turns a number into an ordinal string used to denote the position in an ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.

str.ordinalize();

• (string) The ordinalized string.

"1".ordinalize(); // "1st"
"3".ordinalize(); // "3rd"
"24".ordinalize(); // "24th"

See also Number.ordinalize.

Returns the plural form of the word in the string.

str.pluralize([count]);

1. count - (number) - Optional, determines whether or not to pluralize the word.

• (string) The pluralized string.

"post".pluralize();         // "posts"
"sheep".pluralize();        // "sheep"
"matrix".pluralize();       // "matrices"
"person".pluralize();       // "people"
"CrazyOctopus".pluarlize(); // "CrazyOctopi"

"post".pluralize(1);     // "post"
"post".pluralize(0);     // "posts"
"post".pluralize(10);    // "posts"

The reverse of pluralize, returns the singular form of a word in a string.

str.singularize();

• (string) The singularized string.

"posts".singularize();       // "post"
"octopi".singularize();      // "octopus"
"CamelOctopi".singularize(); // "CamelOctopus"

Create the name of a table like Rails does for models to table names. This method uses the pluralize method on the last word in the string.

str.tableize();

• (string) The tableized string.

"RawScaledScorer".tableize(); // "raw_scaled_scorers"
"egg_and_ham".tableize(); // "egg_and_hams"
"fancyCategory".tableize(); // "fancy_categories"

Capitalizes all the words and replaces some characters in the string to create a nicer looking title.

str.titleize();

• (string) The titleized string.

"man from the boondocks".titleize(); // "Man From the Boondocks"
"x-men: the last stand".titleize(); // "X Men: The Last Stand"

The reverse of camelize. Makes an underscored, lowercase form from the expression in the string.

str.underscore();

• (string) The underscore-ed string.

"ActiveRecord".underscore(); // "active_record"

Capitalizes the first letter of a string.

str.capitalizeFirst();

• (string) The capitalizeFirst-ed string.

"hello my name is Simon".capitalizeFirst(); // "Hell my name is Simon"

Lower cases the first letter of a string

str.lowercaseFirst();

• (string) The lowercaseFirst-ed string.

"Hello my name is Simon".lowercaseFirst(); // "hello my name is Simon"