= Rext

Rext is primarily used for the Evolution CMS project, and its dependencies,
however it is de-coupled and free to use within your own project.

== Motivations

* ActiveSupport does not contain everything we need, and is messy IMO
* Very easy to cherry-pick what you need
* Provide better documentation
* Attention to quality and performance
* Abstraction of loosely coupled helpers used throughout Evolution and its sub-gems

== Usage

  require 'rext/all'

  # or 

  require 'rext/string'
  require 'rext/hash'
  ...

  # or 

  require 'rext/string/escape'
  require 'rext/enumerable/every'
  ...

== Extensions

Below are the methods currently provided by Rext.

* Object
  - metaclass
  - meta_def
  - meta_eval
  - indifferent_hash
  - returning
  - try

* String
  - url_encode
  - url_decode
  - base64_encode
  - base64_decode
  - html_escape
  - merge_word / add_class
  - digitize
  - camelize
  - constantize
  - wrap
  - starts_with?
  - ends_with?
  - plural?
  - singular?
  - first
  - last
  - from
  - file
  - files
  - path
  - switchify
  - word_frequency
  - frequency_of_word
  - to_md5
  - to_sha512

* Integer
  - ordanalize

* Numeric
  - bytes, kilobytes, etc
  - seconds, minutes, hours, days, ...
  - to_seconds, to_minutes, to_hours, ...
  - ago / before
  - since / from_now

* Hash
  - delete_at / extract!
  - switchify

* Time
  - in_words_since / in_words_since_now
  - to_time

* Date
  - to_time

* Module
  - chainable
  - extendable
  - call_method

* Proc
  - yield_or_eval

* Enumerable
  - group_by
  - includes_all?
  - every
  
* Symbol
  - to_proc

== Contrib

Feel free to fork Rext on github, or submit a ticket:
http://github.com/visionmedia/rext/issues

== License

(The MIT License)

Copyright (c) 2009 TJ Holowaychuk <tj@vision-media.ca>

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
'Software'), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
distribute, sublicense, an d/or sell copies of the Software, and to
permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
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