On Aug 11, 7:18 am, bingo bob
<li...-fsXkhYbjdPsEEoCn2XhGlw@public.gmane.org>
wrote:> I''m trying to stuff like this in my BabyName model..
>
> before_save :capitalize
>
> def capitalize
> self.title = title.capitalize
> self.forename = forename.capitalize
> self.surname = surname.capitalize
> self.middlenames = middlenames.split.each { |x| print
> x.capitalize!, " "}.join(" ")
> end
>
> def full_name
> self.title + " " + self.forename + " " +
self.middlenames + " " +
> self.surname
> end
>
> def initials
>
> end
>
> #
>
> two things;
>
> 1) my full_name method doens''t seem great in that I might get two
spaces
> between names.
You could build an array with all the components, remove any blanks or
nils and then use join on all that
> 2) how do I grab the initials method ?
as in how to write it ? forename & surname should be straightforward,
for middlenames you could just split on spaces and then take the first
letter of each component
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