How to express ordinality with numbers in Rails
If you have an integer and want to use it to represent an element's position (like "1st" for 1, or "2nd" for 2), you can use ActiveSupport's
ordinalize
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1.ordinalize # => "1st"
2.ordinalize # => "2nd"
1002.ordinalize # => "1002nd"
1003.ordinalize # => "1003rd"
-11.ordinalize # => "-11th"
-1001.ordinalize # => "-1001st"
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