humanize

Tweaks an attribute name for display to end users.

Specifically, performs these transformations:

• Applies human inflection rules to the argument.

• Deletes leading underscores, if any.

• Removes an “_id” suffix if present.

• Replaces underscores with spaces, if any.

• Downcases all words except acronyms.

• Capitalizes the first word.

The capitalization of the first word can be turned off by setting the :capitalize option to false (default is true).

The trailing ‘_id’ can be kept and capitalized by setting the optional parameter keep_id_suffix to true (default is false).

humanize('employee_salary')                  # => "Employee salary"
humanize('author_id')                        # => "Author"
humanize('author_id', capitalize: false)     # => "author"
humanize('_id')                              # => "Id"
humanize('author_id', keep_id_suffix: true)  # => "Author id"

If “SSL” was defined to be an acronym:

humanize('ssl_error') # => "SSL error"