How to convert 1 to "first", 2 to "second", and so on, in Ruby?

[kent-where-the-light-is]

“ 0 down vote I wanted an ordinalize method that has "first, second, third" rather than '1st, 2nd, 3rd' - so here's a little snippet that works up to 10 (and falls back to the Rails ordinalize if it can't find it). class TextOrdinalize def initialize(value) @value = value end def text_ordinalize o