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alterisian/fixnum_ordinalize.rb

Created November 27, 2012 13:07
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Adds ordinalize i.e. th,st,rd to a number for use in date string outputs
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fixnum_ordinalize.rb
class Fixnum
def ordinalize
if (11..13).include?(self % 100)
"#{self}th"
else
case self % 10
when 1; "#{self}st"
when 2; "#{self}nd"
when 3; "#{self}rd"
else "#{self}th"
end
end
end
end
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alterisian commented Nov 27, 2012

From: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1081926/how-do-i-format-a-date-in-ruby-to-include-rd-as-in-3rd

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mblythe86 commented Mar 9, 2016

Doesn't work correctly for negative numbers. See my fork

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