# Flect

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This is a new inflection engine to replace [https://github.com/markbates/inflect](https://github.com/markbates/inflect) designed to be more modular, more readable, and easier to fix issues on than the original. ## Installation ```bash $ go get -u -v github.com/gobuffalo/flect ``` ## `github.com/gobuffalo/flect` GoDoc The `github.com/gobuffalo/flect` package contains "basic" inflection tools, like pluralization, singularization, etc... ### The `Ident` Type In addition to helpful methods that take in a `string` and return a `string`, there is an `Ident` type that can be used to create new, custom, inflection rules. The `Ident` type contains two fields. * `Original` - This is the original `string` that was used to create the `Ident` * `Parts` - This is a `[]string` that represents all of the "parts" of the string, that have been split apart, making the segments easier to work with Examples of creating new inflection rules using `Ident` can be found in the `github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name` package. ## `github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name` GoDoc The `github.com/gobuffalo/flect/name` package contains more "business" inflection rules like creating proper names, table names, etc...