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underscore

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underscore(camel_cased_word) public

The reverse of camelize. Makes an underscored form from the expression in the string.

Changes ’::’ to ’/’ to convert namespaces to paths.

Examples

  "ActiveRecord".underscore #=> "active_record"
  "ActiveRecord::Errors".underscore #=> active_record/errors

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb, line 168
  def underscore(camel_cased_word)
    camel_cased_word.to_s.gsub(/::/, '/').
      gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
      gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
      tr("-", "_").
      downcase
  end

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

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