Rails itself depends on pluralization for the reasons I stated in my last message.
On Friday, July 27, 2012 10:03:54 PM UTC-7, Rafael C. de Almeida wrote: > > Maybe I'm missing something, but couldn't the default inflection just > don't do anything? That is, the plural of any word is the word itself. From > the user point of view, it would be like there is no pluralization at all. > > Cheers > > On Friday, July 27, 2012 12:00:59 PM UTC-3, davidcelis wrote: >> >> I don't think that's really a good option. Some Rails internals already >> rely heavily upon the inflections; there have to be some pluralizations >> loaded by default (whether from within the framework, or an inflections >> gem). If they WERE to be extracted into a gem (which is what I did), it >> would still need to be bundled by default. Inflections are used in routing, >> mapping between models and controllers, and a lot of other places within >> Rails. They need to be there. >> >> On Thursday, July 26, 2012 6:21:26 PM UTC-7, Rafael C. de Almeida wrote: >>> >>> One thing that have always bothered me about the inflector and this >>> pluralize business is that it only work in English. That make rails newbies >>> from non-english speaking countries have a harder time learning the >>> technology than they should. I know ruby's keywords are already in English, >>> and so are method names and so on. But reading a foreing language is >>> easier; and so is using already defined names. However, a person who >>> doesn't know English very well will not do a good job in naming his own >>> variables and models in English. A famous quote from computer science field >>> goes: "There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache >>> invalidation and naming things". Imagine naming it in a language you >>> aren't proficient. >>> >>> Perhaps inflection should not be the default. Maybe it should be >>> optional. If you want it, then you can load your language's inflection gem, >>> if it's available. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/WTQyy8fiZHkJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
