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class String
  # Overwrite this method to provide your own translations.
  def self.translate(value)
    translations[value] || value
  end

  def self.translations
    @translations ||= {}
  end

  # Matches any whitespace (including newline) and replaces with a single space
  #
  # @example
  #   <<QUERY.compress_lines
  #     SELECT name
  #     FROM users
  #   QUERY
  #   => "SELECT name FROM users"
  def compress_lines(spaced = true)
    split($/).map { |line| line.strip }.join(spaced ? ' ' : '')
  end

  # Useful for heredocs - removes whitespace margin.
  def margin(indicator = nil)
    lines = self.dup.split($/)

    min_margin = 0
    lines.each do |line|
      if line =~ /^(\s+)/ && (min_margin == 0 || $1.size < min_margin)
        min_margin = $1.size
      end
    end
    lines.map { |line| line.sub(/^\s{#{min_margin}}/, '') }.join($/)
  end

 # Formats String for easy translation. Replaces an arbitrary number of
  # values using numeric identifier replacement.
  #
  # @example
  # "%s %s %s" % %w(one two three) #=> "one two three"
  # "%3$s %2$s %1$s" % %w(one two three) #=> "three two one"
  def t(*values)
    self.class::translate(self) % values
  end
end # class String

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
extlib-0.9.3	lib/extlib/string.rb
extlib-0.9.2	lib/extlib/string.rb