Nicetitle

Nicetitle is an implementation of John Gruber's TitleCase.pl.

The rule set is:

• Small words such as "a", "an", and "but" are not capitalized:
  • except for the word "is";
  • except if the previous word ended with a colon.
• The first and last words are always capitalized, even if they're small words.
• Words starting with (, _, ', or " are capitalized e.g. __foo becomes __Foo.
• Words starting with a dash, or words interspersed with dashes, are capitalized after every dash e.g. -Foo-bar becomes -Foo-Bar.
• Words interspersed with slashes are capitalized "between" every slash e.g. foo/bar becomes Foo/Bar.
• Words starting with a slash are not capitalized.
• URLs are not capitalized.
• Words containing capitals other than the first character are not capitalized e.g. iOS remains untouched.
• Words containing dots are not capitalized.
• All caps sentences are down-cased before applying above mentioned rules.

Check out the test cases for a detailed overview.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'nicetitle'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install nicetitle

Usage

Calling

Nice.title('What am I reading/listing/applying these days?')

outputs

What Am I Reading/Listing/Applying These Days?

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/evaneykelen/nicetitle.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Similar projects

I've written an article about title casing. This article mentions the following similar projects:

• https://daringfireball.net/2008/08/title_case_update
• https://github.com/samsouder/titlecase
• https://github.com/granth/titleize