Anyone knows if standard ruby has this available?
5.en.numwords # => "five"
1.en.numwords # => "one"
This is part of the Linguistics gem, but I wonder why
standard Ruby does not have this available?
To be able to convert "5" to "five" seems useful
everytime I want to output something to the user.
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Anyone knows if standard ruby has this available?
5.en.numwords # => "five"
1.en.numwords # => "one"This is part of the Linguistics gem, but I wonder why
standard Ruby does not have this available?
I am guessing that translation and natural language handling are not
considered basic i18n functionality. That makes a whole lot of sense
if you consider that it is complicated and there are usually a lot
different possible approaches. Whichever you put into the core or
standard library you will only help part of the Ruby population.
Using a gem for this does not seem to be such a bad alternative.
To be able to convert "5" to "five" seems useful
everytime I want to output something to the user.
Well, you could create a poor man's version if you feel the gem is too
heavyweight:
NUMBERS =%w[zero one two three four five six seven eight nine]
puts NUMBERS[5]
Kind regards
robert
On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Marc Heiler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
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remember.guy do |as, often| as.you_can - without end
http://blog.rubybestpractices.com/
And English gem.