Controller and Scaffold Controller generator - plural vs. singular

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1

Hello,

Why does:

$ rails g controller project
Generates app/controllers/project_controller.rb

and

$ rails g scaffold_controller project
Generates app/controllers/projects_controller.rb and
app/views/projects/
?

With scaffold_controller there is even the following message at the end:
“Plural version of the model detected, using singularized version.
Override
with --force-plural.”

Using singularized version? What? Which model is he talking about? There
are
no models in my (dummy) application.

Thanks for the attention,

Fernando B.

2

Fernando B. wrote:

Why does:

$ rails g controller project
Generates app/controllers/project_controller.rb

and

$ rails g scaffold_controller project
Generates app/controllers/projects_controller.rb and
app/views/projects/

This is by design. Consider:

$ rails g scaffold project name:string

You will notice an output containing something like:
invoke active_record
create db/migrate/20100602201538_create_projects.rb
create app/models/project.rb
invoke test_unit
create test/unit/project_test.rb
create test/fixtures/projects.yml
route resources :projects
invoke scaffold_controller
create app/controllers/projects_controller.rb

Notice also the following line in the output:
invoke scaffold_controller

So, the scaffold_controller generator assumes the full MVC stack from
model, through controller, to the views. In other words, running
scaffold_controller assumes you already have a Project model and assumes
the plural form that is the convention for controllers representing
model objects.

$ rails g controller project

This makes no assumptions about anything and simply creates a controller
file by appending _controller.rb to the name you supply to the
generator.

3

Ah, thank you for your answer! :smiley:

I was not sure about Ruby on Rails convention of naming controllers in
plural. :slight_smile:

–
Fernando B.