lib/charyf/support/string.rb
class String
def camelize
self.split('_').collect(&:capitalize).join
end
def underscore
self.gsub(/::/, '/').
gsub(/([A-Z]+)([A-Z][a-z])/,'\1_\2').
gsub(/([a-z\d])([A-Z])/,'\1_\2').
tr("-", "_").
downcase
end
def constantize
camel_cased_word = self
names = camel_cased_word.split('::')
# Trigger a built-in NameError exception including the ill-formed constant in the message.
Object.const_get(camel_cased_word) if names.empty?
# Remove the first blank element in case of '::ClassName' notation.
names.shift if names.size > 1 && names.first.empty?
names.inject(Object) do |constant, name|
if constant == Object
constant.const_get(name)
else
candidate = constant.const_get(name)
next candidate if constant.const_defined?(name, false)
next candidate unless Object.const_defined?(name)
# Go down the ancestors to check if it is owned directly. The check
# stops when we reach Object or the end of ancestors tree.
constant = constant.ancestors.inject do |const, ancestor|
break const if ancestor == Object
break ancestor if ancestor.const_defined?(name, false)
const
end
# owner is in Object, so raise
constant.const_get(name, false)
end
end
end
def deconstantize
self.to_s[0, self.rindex("::") || 0]
end
def demodulize
if (i = self.rindex("::"))
self[(i + 2)..-1]
else
self
end
end
def squish
dup.squish!
end
def squish!
gsub!(/\A[[:space:]]+/, '')
gsub!(/[[:space:]]+\z/, '')
gsub!(/[[:space:]]+/, ' ')
self
end
def trim(str=nil)
return self.ltrim(str).rtrim(str)
end
def ltrim(str=nil)
if (!str)
return self.lstrip
else
escape = Regexp.escape(str)
end
return self.gsub(/^#{escape}+/, "")
end
def rtrim(str=nil)
if (!str)
return self.rstrip
else
escape = Regexp.escape(str)
end
return self.gsub(/#{escape}+$/, "")
end
end