ActsAsHuman

class User < ActiveRecord::Base
  # t.string "first_name"
  # t.string "middle_names"
  # t.string "last_name"
  
  acts_as_human
end

Supplying first and last names separately:
user = User.new(first_name: 'Brent', last_name: 'Greeff')

You can then read the full_name

user.full_name
  => "Brent Greeff"

Supplying a full_name:
user = User.new(full_name: "Brent Wicked Middle Names Greeff")

You can then read the individual names:

user.first_name
  => "Brent"

user.last_name
  => "Greeff"

user.middle_names
  => "Wicked Middle Names"

Enable users to provide their full name in a single text input. Saves to 3 separate fields: first_name, middle_names and last_name allowing you to easily display their name in different formats in different places.

Validations limit each name field to 40 characters each, allowing a total length of 120 characters for the full name. Non-name like characters are invalid.

Bundler

gem acts_as_human

• Adds full_name and full_name= instance methods to a model.

Adds validations to ensure that the names are reasonable.

• Requires: first_name, last_name and middle_names columns in the database.

Migration

bundle exec acts_as_human migration users

Change "users" to the name of your existing table.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/[USERNAME]/acts_as_human.

License

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

Development

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run rake spec 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. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.