lib/extensions/string.rb in taza-0.8.7 vs lib/extensions/string.rb in taza-0.9.0

@@ -1,11 +1,22 @@
-require 'rubygems'
-require 'activesupport'
 
 class String
   # pluralizes a string and turns it into a symbol
   # Example:
   #  "apple".pluralize_to_sym    # => :apples
   def pluralize_to_sym
     self.pluralize.to_sym
+  end
+  
+  # takes human readable words and 
+  # turns it into ruby variable format
+  # dash and spaces to underscore
+  # and lowercases
+  def variablize
+    self.squeeze!(' ')
+	self.gsub!(/\s+/,'_')
+	self.gsub!('-', '_')
+	self.squeeze!('_')
+	self.downcase!
+	self
   end
 end
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