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humanize

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humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word) public

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

Examples

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

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb, line 197
  def humanize(lower_case_and_underscored_word)
    lower_case_and_underscored_word.to_s.gsub(/_id$/, "").gsub(/_/, " ").capitalize
  end

October 25, 2008

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Also for numeric

1.humanize == “1″ 1000000.humanize == “1.000.000″ 1000.12345.humanize == “1.000,12″

http://pragmatig.wordpress.com/2008/10/25/numbers-for-humans-humanize-for-numeric/

September 24, 2009 - (>= v2.2.1)

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This method has been moved to ActiveSupport::Inflector#humanize

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