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-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb3
-rw-r--r--activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/strip.rb26
2 files changed, 28 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
index d8d1f9436e..8fb8c31ade 100644
--- a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string.rb
@@ -9,4 +9,5 @@ require 'active_support/core_ext/string/behavior'
require 'active_support/core_ext/string/interpolation'
require 'active_support/core_ext/string/output_safety'
require 'active_support/core_ext/string/exclude'
-require 'active_support/core_ext/string/encoding' \ No newline at end of file
+require 'active_support/core_ext/string/encoding'
+require 'active_support/core_ext/string/strip'
diff --git a/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/strip.rb b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/strip.rb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..086c610976
--- /dev/null
+++ b/activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/strip.rb
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+require 'active_support/core_ext/object/try'
+
+class String
+ # Strips indentation in heredocs.
+ #
+ # For example in
+ #
+ # if options[:usage]
+ # puts <<-USAGE.strip_heredoc
+ # This command does such and such.
+ #
+ # Supported options are:
+ # -h This message
+ # ...
+ # USAGE
+ # end
+ #
+ # the user would see the usage message aligned against the left margin.
+ #
+ # Technically, it looks for the least indented line in the whole string, and removes
+ # that amount of leading whitespace.
+ def strip_heredoc
+ indent = scan(/^[ \t]*(?=\S)/).min.try(:size) || 0
+ gsub(/^[ \t]{#{indent}}/, '')
+ end
+end