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+++ b/railties/guides/source/active_support_core_extensions.textile
@@ -1426,6 +1426,14 @@ The method +pluralize+ returns the plural of its receiver:
As the previous example shows, Active Support knows some irregular plurals and uncountable nouns. Built-in rules can be extended in +config/initializers/inflections.rb+. That file is generated by the +rails+ command and has instructions in comments.
++pluralize+ can also take an optional +count+ parameter. If <tt>count == 1</tt> the singular form will be returned. For any other value of +count+ the plural form will be returned:
+
+<ruby>
+"dude".pluralize(0) # => "dudes"
+"dude".pluralize(1) # => "dude"
+"dude".pluralize(2) # => "dudes"
+</ruby>
+
Active Record uses this method to compute the default table name that corresponds to a model:
<ruby>
@@ -1760,7 +1768,7 @@ h4(#string-conversions). Conversions
h5. +ord+
-Ruby 1.9 defines +ord+ to be the codepoint of the first character of the receiver. Active Support backports +ord+ for single-byte encondings like ASCII or ISO-8859-1 in Ruby 1.8:
+Ruby 1.9 defines +ord+ to be the codepoint of the first character of the receiver. Active Support backports +ord+ for single-byte encodings like ASCII or ISO-8859-1 in Ruby 1.8:
<ruby>
"a".ord # => 97
@@ -1774,7 +1782,7 @@ In Ruby 1.8 +ord+ doesn't work in general in UTF8 strings, use the multibyte sup
"à".mb_chars.ord # => 224, in UTF8
</ruby>
-Note that the 224 is different in both examples. In ISO-8859-1 "à" is represented as a single byte, 224. Its single-character representattion in UTF8 has two bytes, namely 195 and 160, but its Unicode codepoint is 224. If we call +ord+ on the UTF8 string "à" the return value will be 195 in Ruby 1.8. That is not an error, because UTF8 is unsupported, the call itself would be bogus.
+Note that the 224 is different in both examples. In ISO-8859-1 "à" is represented as a single byte, 224. Its single-character representation in UTF8 has two bytes, namely 195 and 160, but its Unicode codepoint is 224. If we call +ord+ on the UTF8 string "à" the return value will be 195 in Ruby 1.8. That is not an error, because UTF8 is unsupported, the call itself would be bogus.
INFO: +ord+ is equivalent to +getbyte(0)+.