Formatted pluralize

Question

I have a case where I need to use pluralize to properly spell something. However, I need to render the html like so:

<span>1</span> thing

or,

<span>3</span> things

I could write a helper method, but I'm just making sure there isn't something in the box to do this.

Answer 1

This uses the Rails class TextHelper which uses Inflector to do the pluralization if needed.

def pluralize_with_html(count, word)
  "<span>#{count}</span> #{TextHelper.pluralize(count, word)}"
end