RubyPulse Episode 0.25 - linguistics
.. a generic, language-neutral framework for extending Ruby objects with linguistic methods. - Michael Granger, Martin Chase
> 4.to_s => "4" > require 'rubygems' => true > require 'linguistics' => true > Linguistics::use( :en ) => [String, Numeric, Array] > 4.en.numwords => "four" > 44.en.numwords => "forty-four" > 444.en.numwords => "four hundred and forty-four" > 444.en.numwords :and => " " => "four hundred forty-four" > "mouse" => "mouse" > "mouse".en.plural => "mice" > 44.en.ordinal => "44th" > 41.en.ordinal => "41st" > 42.en.ordinal => "42nd" > "mouse".en.a => "a mouse" > "mouse".en.plural.en.a => "a mice" > 2385762345876.en.numwords => "two trillion, three hundred and eighty-five billion, seven hundred and sixty-two million, three hundred and forty-five thousand, eight hundred and seventy-six" > 2385762345876.en.numwords :and => " " => "two trillion, three hundred eighty-five billion, seven hundred sixty-two million, three hundred forty-five thousand, eight hundred seventy-six" > "mouse".en.quantify 10 => "a number of mice" > "mouse".en.quantify 100 => "hundreds of mice" > "mouse".en.quantify 1000 => "thousands of mice" > "mouse".en.quantify 1111 => "thousands of mice"
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