Help with table name pluralization

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I want to turn off table name pluralization, so I've added

  ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false

at the end on my config/environment.rb

But I am getting an uninitialized constant error from paginator.

uninitialized constant Wherei

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:266:in `load_missing_constant' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:452:in `const_missing' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:464:in `const_missing' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ inflector.rb:250:in `constantize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ core_ext/string/inflections.rb:148:in `constantize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/ pagination.rb:195:in `paginator_and_collection_for' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/ pagination.rb:130:in `paginate' app/controllers/admin_controller.rb:12:in `list'

My table name is 'whereis' and this seems to indicate that Rails is trying to get the model name by removing the plural from the table name.

It would be helpful to know how to test whether table name pluralization was turned off or whether I've missed a step it disabling pluralization. I have not any documentation on this.

Thanks Dave

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You did restart the server/console after modifying environment.rb right?

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My table name is 'whereis' and this seems to indicate that Rails is trying to get the model name by removing the plural from the table name.

It would be helpful to know how to test whether table name pluralization was turned off or whether I've missed a step it disabling pluralization. I have not any documentation on this.

Your change was for ActiveRecord table names only, It looks like from your stack trace that paginate is doing its own pluralizing. There's no global "pluralization begone!" switch though.

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Yes, I did. Thanks.

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Good point! I've dumped the pagination. Thanks for the insight.

Dave