From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2012-12-26T01:00:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Word Pluralization and Conversions from Numbers like 1,2,3,4,5

On Tue, Dec 25, 2012 at 4:41 AM, Marc Heiler <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:
> Anyone knows if standard ruby has this available?
>
> 5.en.numwords # => "five"
> 1.en.numwords # => "one"
>
> This is part of the Linguistics gem, but I wonder why
> standard Ruby does not have this available?

I am guessing that translation and natural language handling are not
considered basic i18n functionality.  That makes a whole lot of sense
if you consider that it is complicated and there are usually a lot
different possible approaches.  Whichever you put into the core or
standard library you will only help part of the Ruby population.
Using a gem for this does not seem to be such a bad alternative.

> To be able to convert "5" to "five" seems useful
> everytime I want to output something to the user.

Well, you could create a poor man's version if you feel the gem is too
heavyweight:

NUMBERS =%w[zero one two three four five six seven eight nine]

puts NUMBERS[5]

;-)

Kind regards

robert

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