This morning, Kevin Glowacz (@kevinglowacz) replied to me a few times on Twitter about Ruby String#Nameize class extension I had posted a while back. I had done some work to it after posting it here. Kevin also asked me a few questions about oddities that were in it that have since been resolved. So thanks to his prodding, you get a slightly updated version…
The only real “feature” is that it will now handle full names just fine. Otherwise, the rest of the stuff was mostly performance related. Here it is:
class String
# Extension of the string class to properly handle camel names
def nameize
if self.match(/ /)
# If the name has a space in it, we gotta run the parts through the nameizer.
name = self.split(' ').each { |part| part.nameize! }.join(' ')
return name
elsif self.match(/^[A-Z]/)
# If they took the time to capitalize their name then let's just jump out.
return self
else
# If there are no spaces and there is no prior
# capitalization then let's downcase the whole thing.
name = self.downcase
end
# Let's now assume that they were lazy...
return case
when name.match(/^mac/)
name.gsub(/^mac/, "").capitalize.insert(0, "Mac")
when name.match(/^mc/)
name.gsub(/^mc/, "").capitalize.insert(0, "Mc")
when name.match(/^o\'/)
name.split("'").each{ |piece| piece.capitalize! }.join("'")
else
name.capitalize # name is a first name or it's not Irish then capitalize it.
end
end
def nameize!
replace nameize # BANG!
end
endAs always – question, comments, suggestions – shoot me an email, leave a comment, or hit me on Twitter (@PatrickTulskie).