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

If you use Ruby Facets, you can lowercase the first letter:

https://github.com/rubyworks/facets/blob/master/lib/core/facets/string/uppercase.rb