Integer to words

[kala...@bc.edu]

Sorry if this isn't an appropriate use of the board, I haven't really
been around too long or been too involved.

I never found a solution for changing integers to words that I liked.
I know the ruby linguistics gem does it, but that was overkill for
what I needed so I pulled this together, and it seemed more
lightweight and more flexible than the other solutions I had come
across.

Also, I generally don't venture outside of the basic rails coding
patterns, so it was a bit of a challenge to myself to make something
different. Feel free to use the code, or provide any feedback as to
how I could make it better. I have it as an extension to the Integer
class in ActiveSupport, but it'd be easy to move it to a helper.

http://github.com/farski/rails/commit/300d58063bc4b5d0460307f35259bd2ebc3762d2

I'm thinking about adding support for decimals as well, but not today.

also, it's fun to type in really big numbers and see how they are
called.

[Josh]

Take a look at the 'english' gem. Not sure if that's the same
linguistics thing you're talking about.

sudo gem install -y english

In particular, English::Numerals::name(integer) sounds like what
you're looking for. Additionally, it monkey patches Integer so you do
4.english.

On Apr 29, 7:49 pm, kalaf...@bc.edu wrote:
> Sorry if this isn't an appropriate use of the board, I haven't really
> been around too long or been too involved.
>
> I never found a solution for changing integers to words that I liked.
> I know the ruby linguistics gem does it, but that was overkill for
> what I needed so I pulled this together, and it seemed more
> lightweight and more flexible than the other solutions I had come
> across.
>
> Also, I generally don't venture outside of the basic rails coding
> patterns, so it was a bit of a challenge to myself to make something
> different. Feel free to use the code, or provide any feedback as to
> how I could make it better. I have it as an extension to the Integer
> class in ActiveSupport, but it'd be easy to move it to a helper.
>

> http://github.com/farski/rails/commit/300d58063bc4b5d0460307f35259bd2...