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Ruby On Rails: Change Class Name Into Human Readable String

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Chris O'Sullivan
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Jan. 09, 08 · Code Snippet
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This turns a class name (like LineItem) into a nice string (like "line item")


 line_item = LineItem.new
 puts line_item.class.name.underscore.humanize.lowcase #spits out "line item"
Strings Data Types

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