singularize

singularize(word, locale = :en)

Instance Public methods

The reverse of pluralize, returns the singular form of a word in a string.

If passed an optional locale parameter, the word will be singularized using rules defined for that language. By default, this parameter is set to :en.

'posts'.singularize            # => "post"
'octopi'.singularize           # => "octopus"
'sheep'.singularize            # => "sheep"
'word'.singularize             # => "word"
'CamelOctopi'.singularize      # => "CamelOctopus"
'leyes'.singularize(:es)       # => "ley"

Links:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/36019329b015e570a58d9f34027c6e73edc36b77/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflector/methods.rb#L47

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2015-06-20 00:00:00

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