A Title Case Gem for Ruby
Posted Monday, February 02, 2009A project I’m working on called for some “smart” capitalisation of page titles. Essentially I wanted to take a URL slug) and generate a page title.
Rails comes with a built-in String#titleize method that capitalises every word but that looked a little odd when the title was something like: “My Hovercraft Is Full Of Eels”. So I went on a hunt for something “smarter”.
After a little search I stumbled upon Marshall Elfstrand’s JavaScript, Ruby, and Objective-C ports of John Gruber’s “Title Case” algorithm and decided to turn it into a Gem that adds String#titleize and String#titleize! (aliased as #titlecase, and #titlecase! respectively). When used in a Rails environment, this effectively replaces the Rails versions.
Now my page titles look a little more human-like: “My Hovercraft is Full of Eels”.
- Later: Web standards and all I got was this lousy website
- Earlier: Plugins move
About Simon
Husband, Father, One-time Entrepreneur.
Aka Haruki Zaemon. Aka Sampy.
In my younger years I wanted to save the world; now I'm happy solving bigger problems than I create.
If I didn't need to work I'd be teaching Aikido and spending all my free time with my amazing wife and two children in Woodend, Victoria, Australia.
Books
Beginning Algorithms
with James Ross
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