method

humanize

Ruby on Rails latest stable (v3.2.13) - 0 notes - Class: String

humanize() public

Capitalizes the first word, turns underscores into spaces, and strips ‘_id’. Like titleize, this is meant for creating pretty output.

"employee_salary" # => "Employee salary"
"author_id"       # => "Author"

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/inflections.rb, line 187
  def humanize
    ActiveSupport::Inflector.humanize(self)
  end