Numeric Fallback

[alethea]

Would it be in scope of this project to include an option to allow, Numeric#to_words to fallback to returning Numeric#to_s for locales that aren't supported?

[dblock]

I am not sure. I think if the library can't convert something you'd probably want to get an error. At the very least that would be a change in behavior so we'd want a way to turn it off.

[alethea]

Oh, I'm so sorry, it looks like Github ate my description. I was suggesting it as an opt-in option. For instance, you're trying to render a page in the zh locale, it would fall back to numbers, but in en it would use words.

[dblock]

👍 give it a shot

[jlduran]

@alethea Something like this?

require 'numbers_and_words'

number = 42
locales = %i(aa en es fr ru zh)

locales.each do |locale|
  begin
    I18n.with_locale(locale) { p number.to_words }
  rescue I18n::InvalidLocale
    p number
  end
end

# => 42
# => "forty-two"
# => "cuarenta y dos"
# => "quarante-deux"
# => "сорок два"
# => 42

[alethea]

@jlduran Yes, that's exactly the behavior I was proposing.

@dblock I'll see if I can put a PR together over the weekend.