Rails join a list of strings with commas and "and" before the last

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Is there a standard rails helper that converts an array of strings like ["apple", "banana", "pear"] into "apple, banana, and pear" for inserting into a sentence?

score 95 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 28 '11 at 18:08

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Yeah to_sentence ought to work nicely.

http://apidock.com/rails/Array/to_sentence

answered Nov 28 '11 at 18:08

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Rails join a list of strings with commas and "and" before the last

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