What's the best way to deal with English pluralisation in a rails view?

Question

I generally do something like this, but if feels nasty and not very dry:

-if minutes == 1
  added #{minutes} minute ago
-else
  added #{minutes} minutes ago

score 5 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 15 '12 at 15:41

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<%= pluralize(minutes, "minute") %> if you're in a view.

answered Jun 15 '12 at 15:41

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 15 '12 at 15:42

See http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActionView/Helpers/TextHelper.html#method-i-pluralize

"added #{ pluralize(minutes, "minute") } ago"

There is an optional third argument that you can add if the plural version is non-standard and rails can't figure it out. For example (from the docs):

pluralize(3, 'person', 'users')

What's the best way to deal with English pluralisation in a rails view?

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