Feature request: support for inflections

[iainbeeston]

By default Rails comes with inflections for the 'en' local:

https://github.com/rails/rails/blob/master/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflections.rb

If you try to use the pluralize or singularize view helpers in any other locale they do nothing, unless you have defined your own pluralizations (the rails new app generator provides a file for this in config/initializers/inflections.rb).

It feels like this is something that could go into rails-18n so that as well as default translations, pluralizations would work "out of the box".

Is this something that would be acceptable to the maintainers? I can probably make a pull request if it is (any hints on where the code aught to go or how it should be maintained would be welcome).

[iainbeeston]

There is already the inflections gem (by @davidcelis) but I think multilingual inflections support aught to come "out-of-the-box" with rails-18n, and including inflections here might encourage people to contribute inflections for languages other than english