Integer ordinalization in Ruby/Rails

Question

I\'m looking for a way to handle integer ordinalization in Ruby/Rails, ie. \"st\", \"nd\", \"rd\", and \"th\" suffixes to integers. Ruby on Rails used to extend FixNum with an \

Answer 1

The method you want is still ordinalize.

Active_Support was refactored a bit to provide better granularity. Instead of loading in everything at once, you can select smaller chunks depending on what you need.

You can either load everything in Active_Support using require 'active_support/all', or break it down using require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections':

>> require 'active_support/core_ext/integer/inflections' #=> true
>> 1.ordinalize #=> "1st"