Override titleize method in Ruby on Rails

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Is there a way to override the .titleize method in RoR?

For example, titleize does not work for names like TJ Watson. It converts 'tj watson' to Tj Watson. I would like to add such rules to it.

Also, I don't want to define a new method because my code already uses .titleize through it. How can I add features to titleize without having to change the method calls throughout the code?

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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Put some *.rb file in your initializers folder with the following content:

# encoding: utf-8

module ActiveSupport
  module Inflector
    def titleize(word)
      # old code for referencing:
      # humanize(underscore(word)).gsub(/\b(?<!['’`])[a-z]/) { $&.capitalize }
      < your code goes here >
    end
  end
end

Also check this approach: https://stackoverflow.com/a/10471857/1322562.

edited May 23 '17 at 10:09

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answered Jul 08 '12 at 13:59

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Question: When i do this code, I get the following: /config/initializers/inflections.rb:16: syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')' ...erscore(word)).gsub(/\b(?<!['’`])[a-z]/) { $&.capitalize } ------- I'm assuming that this is due to encoding? How do i fix this? – RailsTweeter Jul 17 '12 at 11:24
Did you put the `# encoding: utf-8` line at the very beginning of your file? It's a magic comment. It has to be there. – jdoe Jul 17 '12 at 13:40
Great. I had to remove one of the apostrophe like characters for it to work. Question: if I wanted to leave dashes ( - ) in the string, how would I do that? For example, currently "james franklin-howard".titleize => "James Franklin Howard" ... how would I get James Franklin-Howard ? – RailsTweeter Jul 18 '12 at 00:44

Override titleize method in Ruby on Rails

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