How to pluralize “There is/are N object/objects”?

Question

Pluralizing a single word is simple:

pluralize(@total_users, \"user\")

But what if I want to print \"There is/are N user/u

Answer 1

This is probably best covered by the Rails i18n pluralization features. Adapted from http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#pluralization

I18n.backend.store_translations :en, :user_msg => {
  :one => 'There is 1 user',
  :other => 'There are %{count} users'
}
I18n.translate :user_msg, :count => 2
# => 'There are 2 users'