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--- a/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
+++ b/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.md
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+**DO NOT READ THIS FILE IN GITHUB, GUIDES ARE PUBLISHED IN http://guides.rubyonrails.org.**
+
Active Support Core Extensions
==============================
@@ -162,7 +164,7 @@ Active Support provides `duplicable?` to programmatically query an object about
false.duplicable? # => false
```
-By definition all objects are `duplicable?` except `nil`, `false`, `true`, symbols, numbers, class, and module objects.
+By definition all objects are `duplicable?` except `nil`, `false`, `true`, symbols, numbers, class, module, and method objects.
WARNING: Any class can disallow duplication by removing `dup` and `clone` or raising exceptions from them. Thus only `rescue` can tell whether a given arbitrary object is duplicable. `duplicable?` depends on the hard-coded list above, but it is much faster than `rescue`. Use it only if you know the hard-coded list is enough in your use case.
@@ -1011,7 +1013,7 @@ self.default_params = {
}.freeze
```
-They can be also accessed and overridden at the instance level.
+They can also be accessed and overridden at the instance level.
```ruby
A.x = 1
@@ -1165,9 +1167,9 @@ Inserting data into HTML templates needs extra care. For example, you can't just
#### Safe Strings
-Active Support has the concept of <i>(html) safe</i> strings. A safe string is one that is marked as being insertable into HTML as is. It is trusted, no matter whether it has been escaped or not.
+Active Support has the concept of _(html) safe_ strings. A safe string is one that is marked as being insertable into HTML as is. It is trusted, no matter whether it has been escaped or not.
-Strings are considered to be <i>unsafe</i> by default:
+Strings are considered to be _unsafe_ by default:
```ruby
"".html_safe? # => false
@@ -1268,7 +1270,7 @@ The method `squish` strips leading and trailing whitespace, and substitutes runs
There's also the destructive version `String#squish!`.
-Note that it handles both ASCII and Unicode whitespace like mongolian vowel separator (U+180E).
+Note that it handles both ASCII and Unicode whitespace.
NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb`.
@@ -1310,6 +1312,38 @@ In above examples "dear" gets cut first, but then `:separator` prevents it.
NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb`.
+### `truncate_words`
+
+The method `truncate_words` returns a copy of its receiver truncated after a given number of words:
+
+```ruby
+"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!".truncate_words(4)
+# => "Oh dear! Oh dear!..."
+```
+
+Ellipsis can be customized with the `:omission` option:
+
+```ruby
+"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!".truncate_words(4, omission: '&hellip;')
+# => "Oh dear! Oh dear!&hellip;"
+```
+
+Pass a `:separator` to truncate the string at a natural break:
+
+```ruby
+"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!".truncate_words(3, separator: '!')
+# => "Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late..."
+```
+
+The option `:separator` can be a regexp:
+
+```ruby
+"Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be late!".truncate_words(4, separator: /\s/)
+# => "Oh dear! Oh dear!..."
+```
+
+NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb`.
+
### `inquiry`
The `inquiry` method converts a string into a `StringInquirer` object making equality checks prettier.
@@ -1415,7 +1449,7 @@ Returns the substring of the string starting at position `position`:
"hello".from(0) # => "hello"
"hello".from(2) # => "llo"
"hello".from(-2) # => "lo"
-"hello".from(10) # => "" if < 1.9, nil in 1.9
+"hello".from(10) # => nil
```
NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/string/access.rb`.
@@ -1801,16 +1835,14 @@ attribute names:
```ruby
def full_messages
- full_messages = []
-
- each do |attribute, messages|
- ...
- attr_name = attribute.to_s.gsub('.', '_').humanize
- attr_name = @base.class.human_attribute_name(attribute, default: attr_name)
- ...
- end
+ map { |attribute, message| full_message(attribute, message) }
+end
- full_messages
+def full_message
+ ...
+ attr_name = attribute.to_s.tr('.', '_').humanize
+ attr_name = @base.class.human_attribute_name(attribute, default: attr_name)
+ ...
end
```
@@ -1920,24 +1952,6 @@ as well as adding or subtracting their results from a Time object. For example:
(4.months + 5.years).from_now
```
-While these methods provide precise calculation when used as in the examples above, care
-should be taken to note that this is not true if the result of `months', `years', etc is
-converted before use:
-
-```ruby
-# equivalent to 30.days.to_i.from_now
-1.month.to_i.from_now
-
-# equivalent to 365.25.days.to_f.from_now
-1.year.to_f.from_now
-```
-
-In such cases, Ruby's core [Date](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/date/rdoc/Date.html) and
-[Time](http://ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/time/rdoc/Time.html) should be used for precision
-date and time arithmetic.
-
-NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/numeric/time.rb`.
-
### Formatting
Enables the formatting of numbers in a variety of ways.
@@ -2862,6 +2876,20 @@ Active Record does not accept unknown options when building associations, for ex
NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_ext/hash/keys.rb`.
+### Working with Values
+
+#### `transform_values` && `transform_values!`
+
+The method `transform_values` accepts a block and returns a hash that has applied the block operations to each of the values in the receiver.
+
+```ruby
+{ nil => nil, 1 => 1, :x => :a }.transform_values { |value| value.to_s.upcase }
+# => {nil=>"", 1=>"1", :x=>"A"}
+```
+There's also the bang variant `transform_values!` that applies the block operations to values in the very receiver.
+
+NOTE: Defined in `active_support/core_text/hash/transform_values.rb`.
+
### Slicing
Ruby has built-in support for taking slices out of strings and arrays. Active Support extends slicing to hashes:
@@ -3672,9 +3700,9 @@ t.advance(seconds: 1)
#### `Time.current`
-Active Support defines `Time.current` to be today in the current time zone. That's like `Time.now`, except that it honors the user time zone, if defined. It also defines `Time.yesterday` and `Time.tomorrow`, and the instance predicates `past?`, `today?`, and `future?`, all of them relative to `Time.current`.
+Active Support defines `Time.current` to be today in the current time zone. That's like `Time.now`, except that it honors the user time zone, if defined. It also defines the instance predicates `past?`, `today?`, and `future?`, all of them relative to `Time.current`.
-When making Time comparisons using methods which honor the user time zone, make sure to use `Time.current` and not `Time.now`. There are cases where the user time zone might be in the future compared to the system time zone, which `Time.today` uses by default. This means `Time.now` may equal `Time.yesterday`.
+When making Time comparisons using methods which honor the user time zone, make sure to use `Time.current` instead of `Time.now`. There are cases where the user time zone might be in the future compared to the system time zone, which `Time.now` uses by default. This means `Time.now.to_date` may equal `Date.yesterday`.
#### `all_day`, `all_week`, `all_month`, `all_quarter` and `all_year`