[Rails] Pluralization in scaffold_generator.rb

[Michael Koziarski]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 16:05:06 -0800, Robby Russell <robby at planetargon.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 17:12 +0100, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote:
> >> In rails 0.9.5, generators/scaffold_generator.rb, on line 11, it
> >> appears that the user-supplied class name is being pluralized, whereas
> >> other generators (e.g. controller) don't pluralize the class name.
> >> Which behavior is right/best?  Should scaffold_generator.rb be fixed
> >> or should the others be brought into conformity with it?
> >
> >Pluralization only happens when you leave out the controller name. No
> >other of the generators attempt to guess the name of the object being
> >generated, so this is an isolated case.
> >
> >I've found that I most often want the controller name to be in plural,
> >so that generate scaffold post will create a Post model and a
> >PostsController. But as said, you can overwrite if you want to keep the
> >singular, like "generate scaffold Account Account" that'll give you an
> >Account model and AccountController.
> 
> I ran:
> 
>  ./script/generate scaffold Employee Employee
> 
> and it's still looking for table 'Employees'
> 
> Is there a way that we can pass the database table that this references
> when calling generate? I have an existing db and would prefer to not
> have to rename all the tables, references, etc.
> 
> I found this:
> 
>   class Mouse < ActiveRecord::Base
>      def self.table_name() "mice" end
>   end
> 
> ..but was hoping that there was a way to have it not plural so that I don't need to do this each time for all of the tables in the system.

What you're looking for is:

ActiveRecord::Base::pluralize_table_names = false.

http://ar.rubyonrails.com/classes/ActiveRecord/Base.html#M000216


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> 
> -Robby
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