I am still confused by rails 3 new rules, and knowing so little about it,I want some help on a particular problem: inflection when creating models: what can I do in order to get rails generate model using words ending in 'a', so that the plural generated add an 's'
If I edit config/initializers/inflections.rb and add the appropiate rule inflect.plural /(.*)a$/, '\1as' I solve the problem.
What collateral effects is to expect ?
GP
I am still confused by rails 3 new rules, and knowing so little about it,I want some help on a particular problem: inflection when creating models: what can I do in order to get rails generate model using words ending in 'a', so that the plural generated add an 's'
If I edit config/initializers/inflections.rb and add the appropiate rule inflect.plural /(.*)a$/, '\1as' I solve the problem.
What collateral effects is to expect ?
As far as I know, all this does is change inflections. This can have consequences if it ends up changing the pluralization of existing, models, resources etc. that were in your app. For example rails knows that has_many :items means that the associated model is Item. if you changed the pluralization rules such that when rails singularized items it got something other than item then rails would guess the wrong class name That said, for me pluralizing words ending in 'a' does seem to just add a s.
Fred
Fred
Many words ending in "a" are already plural. For example the plural of datum is data. @OP: out of interest what words are you pluralising?
Colin