From: Thomas Wieczorek <wieczo.yo@...>
Date: 2007-12-25T03:01:27+09:00
Subject: Re: Sorting Titles in Ruby

On Dec 24, 2007 6:11 PM, Rick DeNatale <rick.denatale@gmail.com> wrote:
> In other words, leading articles should be moved to the end, and
> numbers should be spelled out before sorting.
>

You can use the Linguistics
gem(http://www.deveiate.org/projects/Linguistics/) to convert numbers
to words. I never used it, so you need probably a simple regex to
extract the numbers.
Leading articles can be easily removed with a regex.