/inflection-js

JavaScript Inflection Support

Primary LanguageJavaScript

inflection-js

JavaScript Inflection Support

This code is based in part on the work done in Ruby to support infection as part of Ruby on Rails in the ActiveSupport's Inflector and Inflections classes. It was initally ported to Javascript by Ryan Schuft (ryan.schuft@gmail.com) in 2007.

The basic usage is:

  1. Include this script on your web page.
  2. Call functions on any InflectionJS object in Javascript

Currently implemented functions:

InflectionJS.pluralize(string, plural)

renders a singular English language noun into its plural form
normal results can be overridden by passing in an alternative

InflectionJS.singularize(string, singular)

renders a plural English language noun into its singular form
normal results can be overridden by passing in an alterative

InflectionJS.camelize(string, lowFirstLetter)

renders a lower case underscored word into camel case
the first letter of the result will be upper case unless you pass true
also translates "/" into "::" (underscore does the opposite)

InflectionJS.underscore(string)

renders a camel cased word into words seperated by underscores
also translates "::" back into "/" (camelize does the opposite)

InflectionJS.humanize(string, lowFirstLetter)

renders a lower case and underscored word into human readable form
defaults to making the first letter capitalized unless you pass true

InflectionJS.capitalize(string)

renders all characters to lower case and then makes the first upper

InflectionJS.dasherize(string)

renders all underbars and spaces as dashes

InflectionJS.titleize(string)

renders words into title casing (as for book titles)

InflectionJS.demodulize(string)

renders class names that are prepended by modules into just the class

InflectionJS.tableize(string)

renders camel cased singular words into their underscored plural form

InflectionJS.classify(string)

renders an underscored plural word into its camel cased singular form

InflectionJS.foreign_key(string, dropIdUbar)

renders a class name (camel cased singular noun) into a foreign key
defaults to seperating the class from the id with an underbar unless
you pass true

InflectionJS.ordinalize(string)

renders all numbers found in the string into their sequence like "22nd"