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singularize

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singularize(word) public

The reverse of pluralize, returns the singular form of a word in a string.

Examples:

  "posts".singularize            # => "post"
  "octopi".singularize           # => "octopus"
  "sheep".singluarize            # => "sheep"
  "word".singluarize             # => "word"
  "the blue mailmen".singularize # => "the blue mailman"
  "CamelOctopi".singularize      # => "CamelOctopus"

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# File activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector.rb, line 139
  def singularize(word)
    result = word.to_s.dup

    if inflections.uncountables.include?(result.downcase)
      result
    else
      inflections.singulars.each { |(rule, replacement)| break if result.gsub!(rule, replacement) }
      result
    end
  end

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

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