Names and stuff

Rails
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I’m trying to stuff like this in my BabyName model…

before_save :capitalize

def capitalize
self.title = title.capitalize
self.forename = forename.capitalize
self.surname = surname.capitalize
self.middlenames = middlenames.split.each { |x| print
x.capitalize!, " “}.join(” ")
end

def full_name
self.title + " " + self.forename + " " + self.middlenames + " " +
self.surname
end

def initials

end

two things;

  1. my full_name method doens’t seem great in that I might get two spaces
    between names.
  2. how do I grab the initials method ?
2

On Aug 11, 7:18 am, bingo bob [email protected] wrote:

end

two things;

  1. my full_name method doens’t seem great in that I might get two spaces
    between names.

You could build an array with all the components, remove any blanks or
nils and then use join on all that

  1. how do I grab the initials method ?

as in how to write it ? forename & surname should be straightforward,
for middlenames you could just split on spaces and then take the first
letter of each component

Fred