Help with table name pluralization

Rails
1

I want to turn off table name pluralization, so I’ve added

ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false

at the end on my config/environment.rb

But I am getting an uninitialized constant error from paginator.

uninitialized constant Wherei

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/
dependencies.rb:266:in load_missing_constant' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ dependencies.rb:452:inconst_missing’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/
dependencies.rb:464:in const_missing' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/ inflector.rb:250:inconstantize’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.4.2/lib/active_support/
core_ext/string/inflections.rb:148:in constantize' /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/ pagination.rb:195:inpaginator_and_collection_for’
/usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/actionpack-1.13.3/lib/action_controller/
pagination.rb:130:in paginate' app/controllers/admin_controller.rb:12:inlist’

My table name is ‘whereis’ and this seems to indicate that Rails is
trying to get the model name by removing the plural from the table
name.

It would be helpful to know how to test whether table name
pluralization was turned off or whether I’ve missed a step it
disabling pluralization. I have not any documentation on this.

Thanks
Dave

2

You did restart the server/console after modifying environment.rb
right?

3

My table name is ‘whereis’ and this seems to indicate that Rails is
trying to get the model name by removing the plural from the table
name.

It would be helpful to know how to test whether table name
pluralization was turned off or whether I’ve missed a step it
disabling pluralization. I have not any documentation on this.

Your change was for ActiveRecord table names only, It looks like from
your stack trace that paginate is doing its own pluralizing. There’s
no global “pluralization begone!” switch though.

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Rick O.
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4

Yes, I did. Thanks.

5

Good point! I’ve dumped the pagination. Thanks for the insight.

Dave