Inflection nightmare

Rails
1

Hello,

Can someone tell me how to teach the Inflector to stop treating a
particular word as irregular that is not?

I have an app that has a model named “Regatta” and another model named
“RegattaInclusion” (which is the join model for an HMT relation.

Out of the box, “regatta”.singularize returns “regattum”, which is not a
word.

I have tried this:

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|

insert option here

end

With several options:

  1. inflect.singular(“regatta”, “regatta”)

    “regatta”.singularize works, but “regattas”.singularize returns

“regattas”
2. if I add inflect.plural(“regattas”, “regatta”), it works the same
as in 1.
3. inflect.irregular(“regatta”, “regattas”)
# has no effect

None of the tools in the Inflector::Inflections module seem to address
this problem - a word that looks like an irregular plural, but is really
just a normal singular.

In case you are wondering why this matters, it’s because I’m using
Railroad to build an ERD, and it is giving me a fake entity called
“Regattum” that some of my relationships are going through. If I try to
fix it with inflections, then it crashes because Rails tells it the
class is called “Regattas” instead of “Regatta.”

  1. inflect.irregular “regatta”, “regattas” # “regatta”.singularize
    =>“regattum”
  2. inflect.uncountable “regattum” #
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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Avram D. [email protected]
wrote:

“regattas”
2. if I add inflect.plural(“regattas”, “regatta”), it works the same
as in 1.
3. inflect.irregular(“regatta”, “regattas”)
# has no effect

I am replying as I am usually the one killed on inflections. So, I found
if
I include both of the below, I get good output:

inflect.singular(‘regatas’, ‘regatta’)
inflect.plural(‘regatta’, ‘regattas’)

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > “regatta”.pluralize
=> “regattas”
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > “regattas”.singularize
=> “regatta”
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 >

Does this work for you? I can also conrifm that your other examples are
the
same on my environ.

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:23 PM, David K.
[email protected]wrote:

“RegattaInclusion” (which is the join model for an HMT relation.
With several options:
I am replying as I am usually the one killed on inflections. So, I found if

Sorry, did not check:

ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > “regatta”.singularize
=> “regattum”
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005 >

So, no dice. Annoying and stange, huh?

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ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > “regatta”.singularize
=> “regattum”
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005 >

So, no dice. Annoying and stange, huh?

RIght, no dice.

At this point I have wrapped the Inflections module to manually return
the correct results for “regatta” and “regattas” and then just call back
to the original for anything else. That is actually working, but
oh-my-god is it a stupid ridiculous hack to have to put into place.

5

I’m glad to see other people also punt instead of making the
inflections make sense. I wasted a bit of time trying to create a
scaffold named “Series” and just changed it to “SeriesObj” so I could
start working on my web site.

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On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 11:26 PM, Avram D.
[email protected]wrote:

to the original for anything else. That is actually working, but
oh-my-god is it a stupid ridiculous hack to have to put into place.

Yeah, when I saw your email and I did also start poking around in active
support > inflections and it just makes no sense. If you add a rule
supposedly it should take precedence to all existing code. The only
thing I
could come up with is that Inflections thinks that ‘regatta’ is a plural
and
for some reason that decision takes precedence over any rule added. I
know
it may not make sense for you but I would consider changing the name of
the
model just to please Inflections… how about ‘SailBoatRace’?.. we
can go
the way of euphanisms to avoid irregulars :slight_smile: