Grammar adds verb and pronoun inflection support to ActiveSupport.

With Grammar, you can do things like 'am'.second_person_plural

=> 'are'

'have'.third_person_singular

=> 'has'

and @current_user = @john @user_to_display = @lucy Grammar::Pronoun.noun_or_pronoun(@user_to_display, @current_user)

=> 'John'

@current_user = @lucy Grammar::Pronoun.pronoun_or_noun(@user_to_display, @current_user)

=> 'you'

If you're using Rails (specifically, ActionPack), you can do the following:

in app/controllers/news_controller.rb:

class NewsController < ApplicationController is_grammatical ... append_before_filter :load_grammatical_context ... def load_grammatical_context Grammar::GrammaticalContext.new(:audience => self.current_user) end end

in app/views/news/index.html.erb:

... <% @news_items.each do |item| -%> <% with_grammatical_context(:subject => item.follower, :object => item.followee) do |gc| -%> <%= gc.subject %> <%= gc.conjugate('is') %> now following <%= gc.object %>. <% end -%> <% end -%>