NobleNames

A small Gem to capitalize names with regard to nobility particles and prefixes.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'noble_names'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install noble_names

Usage

Just

require 'noble_names'

and use String#to_title to correctly format your names.

"james of windsor".to_title           #=> "James of Windsor"
"joseph von und zu reinbeck".to_title #=> "Joseph von und zu Reinbeck"
"tywin mclannister".to_title          #=> "Tywin McLannister"

you can also use the bang method:

my_string = "joseph von und zu reinbeck"
my_string.to_title!
my_string                             #=> "Joseph von und zu Reinbeck"

Languages

So far English, German, French, Spanish, Dutch and Portuguese are supported. By default all available languages are used. If you want to configure which one to use for your application, you can do it like so:

NobleNames.configure do |config|
  config.languages = [:english,:spanish]
end

This way other language particles will be ignored.

"joseph von und zu reinbeck".to_title #=> "Joseph Von Und Zu Reinbeck"

Business Names

The current stance on business names is to only correct the business particle if need be and to leave the rest of the name alone.

"bauhelm co. kg".to_title            #=> "bauhelm Co. KG"

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake test to run the tests. You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

Contributing

• Fork it ( https://github.com/Haniyya/noble_names/fork )
• Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
• Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
• Add your changes to CHANGELOG.md.
• Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
• Create a new Pull Request

To add more particles or prefixes from other languages, just add them to the data/particles.yml or data/prefixes.yml file respectively.

Compatability

This gem has no runtime-dependencies outside of the standard library and is therefore compatible with the following ruby versions:

• jruby
• 2.6.0
• 2.7.0
• 3.1.2

Other verions might work to but are not tested in ci so far.

License

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