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def possessivize(owner)
owner.ends_with?('s') ? owner + "’" : owner + "’s"
end
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bensonk commented Jul 13, 2010

Looks like a nice minimal solution to http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1115283/making-a-rails-inflection-for-possessive-strings

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Alternative for those wanting to use a plain ascii ':

def possessivize(owner)
  "#{owner}'#{'s' unless owner.ends_with?('s')}"
end

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