# Monkey patches for Object#blank?, Object.present? and String#pluralize # If active support is required, this won't be used, but # we shouldn't require a ruby project to use ActiveSupport # just for these three simple things module KeyUtility unless Object.respond_to?(:blank?) Object.class_eval do def blank? respond_to?(:empty?) ? empty? : !self end def present? !blank? end end end unless String.respond_to? :pluralize String.class_eval do def pluralize self[(self.length - 1), 1] =~ /s/i ? self : "#{self}s" end end end end