Ruby on Rails uncapitalize first letter

Question

I\'m running Rails 2.3.2.

How do I convert \"Cool\" to \"cool\"? I know \"Cool\".downcase works, but is there a Ruby/Rails method

Answer 1

There is no inverse of capitalize, but you can feel free to roll your own:

class String
  def uncapitalize 
    self[0, 1].downcase + self[1..-1]
  end
end