sort_authority
Natural order string comparison using natsort by Martin Pool.
Getting Started
If you're using Bundler, you can add sort_authority to your Gemfile:
gem 'sort_authority'Or manually install the gem using:
gem install sort_authorityUsage
# bad
['9 Main Street', '10 Main Street'].sort
# => ['10 Main Street', '9 Main Street']
# good!
require 'sort_authority/ext/enumerable'
['9 Main Street', '10 Main Street'].natural_sort
# => ['9 Main Street', '10 Main Street']Benchmarks
Comparison of sorting an array ['x1'] * 100_000 with naturalsort,
naturally, natcmp,
and sensible_sort.
user system total real
sort 0.000000 0.000000 0.000000 ( 0.001758)
strnatcmp.c 0.030000 0.000000 0.030000 ( 0.029083)
naturalsort gem 0.060000 0.000000 0.060000 ( 0.061879)
naturally gem 0.990000 0.020000 1.010000 ( 1.009634)
natcmp gem 1.140000 0.010000 1.150000 ( 1.141950)
sensible_sort 2.280000 0.000000 2.280000 ( 2.286274)
Contributing
Fork, branch, and pull-request.