Agreed on all counts. I don't think pluralization needs to go anywhere. I think the resourceful routes and controller names are more representative of what's going on. I just think the pluralization rules need to be cleaner and that the backwards compatibility excuse doesn't work so well for a major 4.0 release.
On Sunday, July 29, 2012 9:32:01 AM UTC-7, Matt Jones wrote: > > > > On Saturday, 28 July 2012 10:21:23 UTC-4, paulie wrote: >> >> 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. > > > Not to be a jerk, but you're wrong: > > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/media#Etymology_2 > > > >> As I often do in that situation, I >> deleted those files and changed the name to "MediaOutlet" so it would >> act predictably. >> > > And as a side effect, got a model name that makes it *way* easier to > understand what you're actually representing. Until you clarified it, my > first guess was going to be that 'Media' was a class representing an > audio/video/image file. > > 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. > > > For bonus points, how would the new behavior distinguish between the > 'show' and 'index' actions? (currently plural-with-no-args vs. > singular-with-one-arg) > > I suspect you're going to face a lot of pushback from all the developers > who *have* managed to "keep it straight", since your suggestion involves > breaking every one of their applications. > > --Matt Jones > -- 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/-/XC_0SxGGFjEJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
