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Santi
Santi

Reputation: 631

Formatting Full name in Ruby on Rails

In below example, the middle_name is optional. Any name without middle_name it takes an extra blank space. Please anyone make correction following method. 

  def name
    "#{first_name} #{middle_name} #{last_name}".titleize
  end

Upvotes: 5

Views: 2408

Answers (5)

Tony Gaeta
Tony Gaeta

Reputation: 126

This guards and formats: (e.g.) => Scott, Michael G

def full_name
  return if last_name.blank? && first_name.blank?

  ["#{last_name}, #{first_name}", middle_initial, suffix].select(&:present?).join(' ').titleize
end

Upvotes: 0

aarkerio
aarkerio

Reputation: 2364

Contracting the middle names:

def formatted_name(full_name)
  parts = full_name.split
  name  = parts.first
  name += " #{parts[1][0,1].upcase}. " if parts.length > 2
  name += " #{parts[2][0,1].upcase}. " if parts.length > 3
  name += parts.last
end

puts formatted_name("Bob Alan Faria Stwart") => "Bob A. F. Stwart"

Upvotes: -1

Qaisar Nadeem
Qaisar Nadeem

Reputation: 2424

def name    
   "#{first_name} #{middle_name}#{" " if middle_name.present?}#{last_name}".titleize
end

Upvotes: 0

toomanyredirects
toomanyredirects

Reputation: 2002

Use this instead

def name
  [first_name, middle_name, last_name].reject(&:blank?).join(' ').titleize
end

Upvotes: 5

Hieu Pham
Hieu Pham

Reputation: 6692

You can try this:

def name
  [first_name, middle_name, last_name].select(&:present?).join(' ').titleize
end

Upvotes: 14

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