From: Bruno Michel <bruno@...>
Date: 2006-11-22T00:03:40+09:00
Subject: Re: name conversion: search terms?

Hugh Sasse a �crit :
> I'm doing some code generation and need to convert from CamelCase to
> whatever_this_is_called.  Wikipedia has a page for CamelCase but not
> underscore separated words.
> 
> I'm thinking that someone must have done this already, and got the
> edge cases sorted out, so rather than coming up with a wheel with an
> iron tyre I'd search... for what?  Is there a single correct term
> for how we name methods in Ruby?
> 
>         Thank you,
>         Hugh

Hi,

Ruby on Rails have similar things. You should take a look at Active 
Support, and particulary the 
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::String::Inflections class. The 
"underscore" method can be used to transform a string from CamelCase to 
underscore_seprated_words.

-- 
Bruno Michel