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| author | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2011-06-24 14:19:42 -0700 |
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| committer | Xavier Noria <fxn@hashref.com> | 2011-06-24 14:19:42 -0700 |
| commit | 370b380306e03afdf77f29005f33b90a174592f0 (patch) | |
| tree | d31280f05051630f66a28067a572f1b4ef5021ac /railties/guides | |
| parent | d446c798a5ef6c253c56d3b6a607073a8a92dcf2 (diff) | |
| parent | d38ca78dbd99be11e64652163924e9456a7a2362 (diff) | |
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Merge pull request #1648 from dlee/acronyms
Inflector support for acronyms (Issue #1366)
Diffstat (limited to 'railties/guides')
| -rw-r--r-- | railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile | 10 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | railties/guides/source/initialization.textile | 4 |
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile index 7f33cc4df5..bbf5af5dcc 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile @@ -1496,7 +1496,15 @@ end That may be handy to compute method names in a language that follows that convention, for example JavaScript. -INFO: As a rule of thumb you can think of +camelize+ as the inverse of +underscore+, though there are cases where that does not hold: <tt>"SSLError".underscore.camelize</tt> gives back <tt>"SslError"</tt>. +INFO: As a rule of thumb you can think of +camelize+ as the inverse of +underscore+, though there are cases where that does not hold: <tt>"SSLError".underscore.camelize</tt> gives back <tt>"SslError"</tt>. To support cases such as this, Active Support allows you to specify acronyms in +config/initializers/inflections.rb+: + +<ruby> +ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect| + inflect.acronym 'SSL' +end + +"SSLError".underscore.camelize #=> "SSLError" +</ruby> +camelize+ is aliased to +camelcase+. diff --git a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile index 1d5b0c0c11..340699419b 100644 --- a/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile +++ b/railties/guides/source/initialization.textile @@ -661,9 +661,9 @@ require 'active_support/inflections' require 'active_support/core_ext/string/inflections' </ruby> -The +active_support/inflector/methods+ file has already been required by +active_support/autoload+ and so won't be loaded again here. +The +active_support/inflector/methods+ file has already been required by +active_support/autoload+ and so won't be loaded again here. The +activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb+ is required by +active_support/inflector/methods+. -h4. +activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/inflections.rb+ +h4. +active_support/inflections+ This file references the +ActiveSupport::Inflector+ constant which isn't loaded by this point. But there were autoloads set up in +activesupport/lib/active_support.rb+ which will load the file which loads this constant and so then it will be defined. Then this file defines pluralization and singularization rules for words in Rails. This is how Rails knows how to pluralize "tomato" to "tomatoes". |