How to correct pluralization?

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Hi all!

Is it possible to add rules to rails' inflector so I can have

posses -> posse (thinks it's "poss")

and

hero -> heroes (thinks it's "heros")

Thank you!

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Hi --

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Add in your environment.rb: Inflector.inflections do |inflect|    inflect.irregular 'posses', 'posse'    inflect.irregular 'hero', 'heroes' end

P.S.: what's poss/posses ???

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Sounds like a pretty cool app...

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A "posse" is a group of armed men, generally who would go out and round up a wanted criminal. Circa 1800's in the American West.

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Oh, yes! Party Posse feat. Bart!

Yvan eht nioj..

The Simpsons are my second family.

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Hi, thank you very much.

P.S.: what's poss/posses ???

1 : a large group often with a common interest 2 : a body of persons summoned by a sheriff to assist in preserving the public peace usually in an emergency 3 : a group of people temporarily organized to make a search (as for a lost child) 4 : entourage 1

(www.webster.com)

I mean, Rails has problems guessing singular from plural here.

Yours sincerely, Damian/Three-eyed Fish

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Hi Damian, the correrct pluralization for hero is heroes.

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Hi Damian, it seems that posse by definition is already plural. Also, there isn't a word in the dictionary called 'posses'. This would be considered a special case where both the singular and plural form is the same, posse. Thus,

"posse".singularize

=> "posse"

Thus, I would the following to your environment.rb:

Inflector.inflections do |inflect|   inflect.irregular 'posse', 'posse'   inflect.irregular 'hero', 'heroes' end

Good luck,

-Conrad

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Thanks, I'll make it uncountable.

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Checked Wiktionary — it says plural is "posses". Well, posse is a group, but why there couldn't be groups?