I just ran into this again. I attempted to call a model "Media", and the scaffold decided that I meant "Medium", which is NOT a newspaper; it's someone who has a seance. As I often do in that situation, I deleted those files and changed the name to "MediaOutlet" so it would act predictably.
Here's what would be nice to happen: model: Media controller: media_controller route: /media, media_path, media_new_path, etc... params: params['media']['etc'] That beats having to call pluralize and singularize all the time and try to keep it straight. This is especially important for constructing stuff in javascript because the easiest thing is to just assume it is normal and add an 's'. On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 3:01 AM, davidcelis <da...@davidcelis.com> wrote: > 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. > > -- 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. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
