ActiveRecord automatic quoted identifiers

Ruby
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Is there a way to tell ActiveRecord to automatically quote all
table/column/etc. identifiers in the SQL that it generates? I just
upgraded to MySql 5 and we have a database table named “Release”…
This is a new reserved word. Bummer.

I want ActiveRecord to automatically generate SQL like:

SELECT name FROM Release
instead of:
SELECT name FROM Release

I can use ActiveRecord::Base#set_table_name to deal with this
particular case but it seems like a bit of a hack. Anyone know if
there’s a global setting for this in database.yml or something?

Jeremy

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“Jeremy” [email protected] writes:

I can use ActiveRecord::Base#set_table_name to deal with this
particular case but it seems like a bit of a hack. Anyone know if
there’s a global setting for this in database.yml or something?

+1. I was once bitten by using the PostgreSQL reserved word “user” as
column name, which is the only function that can be called without
parentheses. sigh.