Titleizer is a gem that adds String#titleize (aliased as String#titlecase) to perform smart capitalisation of titles:
"terms of reference".titleize # => "Terms of Reference" "my name is barron von sampy pants and you shall refer to me as such".titleize # => "My Name is Barron Von Sampy Pants and You Shall Refer to Me as Such"
Titleizer also converts underscores and dashes to spaces:
"a-slug-from-a-url".titleize # => "A Slug From a Url"
Titleizer also preserves the capitalisation of any word it would capitalise itself:
"THIS IS A TITLE".titleize # => THIS is a TITLE"
And lastly, String#titleize is aliased as String#titlecase.
Oh, one last, last thing, there are self-updating versions as well: String#titleize!, and String#titlecase!
For plain Ruby, simply install the gem and you’re good to go.
sudo gem sources -a http://gems.github.com sudo gem install harukizaemon-titleizer
For Rails, update environment.rb to include the gem:
config.gem "harukizaemon-titleizer", :lib => "titleizer", :source => "http://gems.github.com"
This plugin is copyright 2009 Simon Harris and is released under the MIT license.