1 files changed, 14 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb
index 0e606056c0..1e30687166 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections.rb
@@ -14,4 +14,18 @@ class Integer
   def ordinalize
     ActiveSupport::Inflector.ordinalize(self)
   end
+
+  # Ordinal returns the suffix used to denote the position
+  # in an ordered sequence such as 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th.
+  #
+  #  1.ordinal     # => "st"
+  #  2.ordinal     # => "nd"
+  #  1002.ordinal  # => "nd"
+  #  1003.ordinal  # => "rd"
+  #  -11.ordinal   # => "th"
+  #  -1001.ordinal # => "st"
+  #
+  def ordinal
+    ActiveSupport::Inflector.ordinal(self)
+  end
 end