Rails - Jan 2007 - Conditional pluralize without the number

Hi.

Assume you have an array of person names. I want to generate results in
my view that look like this:

Abby is your friend

or

Abby, Bob, and Carol are your friends.

So I''d like to say:

    <%= friends.to_sentence %>
    <%= pluralize(friends.count, "is") %>
    your <%= pluralize(friends.count, "friend") %>

But because pluralize puts in the number, I get:

Abby 1 is your 1 friend

or

Abby, Bob, and Carol 3 are your 3 friends.

Is there a way around this? The API only shows the one form for
pluralize.

Thanks!

/afb

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Perhaps this helps:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Inflector.html#M001076

Kind of strange, though. The Sting::Inflections simply do a
Inflection.pluralize(word), and that method seems to return the word
only (the method I''m talking about is the one in the link above).
Weird.

On Jan 20, 8:22 pm, Adam Block
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> Hi.
>
> Assume you have an array of person names. I want to generate results in
> my view that look like this:
>
> Abby is your friend
>
> or
>
> Abby, Bob, and Carol are your friends.
>
> So I''d like to say:
>
>     <%= friends.to_sentence %>
>     <%= pluralize(friends.count, "is") %>
>     your <%= pluralize(friends.count, "friend") %>
>
> But because pluralize puts in the number, I get:
>
> Abby 1 is your 1 friend
>
> or
>
> Abby, Bob, and Carol 3 are your 3 friends.
>
> Is there a way around this? The API only shows the one form for
> pluralize.
> 
> Thanks!
> 
> /afb
> 
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> Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.

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You''ll need to use to_sentence to make a custom helper, in
application_helper.rb:

def friends_list_to_sentence(friends)
  if friends.to_a.count == 1
    friends + " is your friend."
  else
    friends.to_sentence + " are your friends."
  end
end

That''s quick and dirty and I didn''t test it.

On 1/20/07, augustlilleaas-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org
<augustlilleaas-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
>
> Perhaps this helps:
>
> http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Inflector.html#M001076
>
> Kind of strange, though. The Sting::Inflections simply do a
> Inflection.pluralize(word), and that method seems to return the word
> only (the method I''m talking about is the one in the link above).
> Weird.
>
> On Jan 20, 8:22 pm, Adam Block
<rails-mailing-l...-ARtvInVfO7ksV2N9l4h3zg@public.gmane.org>
> wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > Assume you have an array of person names. I want to generate results
in
> > my view that look like this:
> >
> > Abby is your friend
> >
> > or
> >
> > Abby, Bob, and Carol are your friends.
> >
> > So I''d like to say:
> >
> >     <%= friends.to_sentence %>
> >     <%= pluralize(friends.count, "is") %>
> >     your <%= pluralize(friends.count, "friend") %>
> >
> > But because pluralize puts in the number, I get:
> >
> > Abby 1 is your 1 friend
> >
> > or
> >
> > Abby, Bob, and Carol 3 are your 3 friends.
> >
> > Is there a way around this? The API only shows the one form for
> > pluralize.
> >
> > Thanks!
> >
> > /afb
> >
> > --
> > Posted viahttp://www.ruby-forum.com/.
>
>
> >
>

-- 
Jim
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