Inflector >> "progress"

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I have this in my Inflector file: ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|   inflect.irregular 'progress', 'progresses' end

but when I run:

"progress".classify

i get => Progres

Obviously this is messing up some internals. Progress doesn't really count as "uncountable"

Any help is appreciated

2

Any chance you can use "progression" or "step" instead of "progress"? Might be easier for the inflector to figure things out...?

Jeff

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Sure, there are other options out there to describe it. Would this be a consideration that the inflector is broken though?

Jeff Cohen wrote:

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Hi Timothy, your code is right. Here’s the thing:

Inflector.classify is used to see how rails converts to table_name to Model name. So you have to do this:

Inflector.classify “progresses”

Inflector.pluralize gives you the contrary.

If you want more information take a look at this:

http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector.html#M000248

There you can see that actually your “progres” bug thing is documented right there but with “busines”.

Hope it helps.