# Pluralization of non-noun names **URL:** \ **Category:** Rails\ **Created:** [May 12, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluralization-of-non-noun-names/60372 "2006-05-12T19:04:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/47e85d/32.png) [@unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unebaguettesvp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 7:04pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluralization-of-non-noun-names/60372/1 "2006-05-12T19:04:02Z")
People, I have an insurance company client and for the last eleven years I have wanted to completely redevelop their system from scratch. However, the boss has never been interested in hiring a team to develop the new system (partly because of the cost and partly because of some famous and expensive development failures in the industry) and has always insisted on incremental development of the old system. Needless to say, this has constrained implementation of new technologies/features etc (not to mention making maintenance and development of the existing system more difficult). I am now convinced that RoR could actually do the redevelopment job with only a slight expansion to our existing development team and at a cost that would not be much more than our usual developer costs. There are however a few problems, the most obvious that I can see is the pluralization thing. I could change the existing “policy” table to “policies” with no drama but the are a number of related tables ie: p\_2quot p\_addr p\_cc p\_cs p\_direct p\_div p\_exss p\_ll p\_mp p\_note p\_prop p\_prov p\_rent p\_rnwl p\_sdiv p\_seq p\_wrkrs p\_xaddr Each policy may or may not have a corresponding record in one of these other tables - if it does it could be a one-to-many or a one-to-one relationship. Is there a way to create new nouns in RoR so that I could create plurals like: p\_2quots p\_addrs p\_ccs . . etc and the system would work as normal? Thanks, ## Phil. Philip R. Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid ---
**Author:** ![unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/47e85d/32.png) [@unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unebaguettesvp)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2006, 9:14pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluralization-of-non-noun-names/60372/2 "2006-05-12T21:14:29Z")
Why not just disable table pluralization? Do that by adding the following line to ‘config/environment.rb’: ActiveRecord [http://dev.radrails.org/trac/wiki/ActiveRecord](http://dev.radrails.org/trac/wiki/ActiveRecord):: Base.pluralize\_table\_names = false According to good database design, database table names should not be pluralized anyway. Disabling pluralization is first thing I do when starting a new Rails project, and you can then forget about adding irregular inflections or incorrect noun pluralization. A bonus side effect is that you never have to worry about table name conflicts with engines or plugins, because the add-in tables will remain pluralized, indicating they are not part of your core application. Daniel Butler > **[Yup Online Math Tutoring Service - Math Tutoring Website](https://yup.com)** > > Yup is your math teacher multiplier. We provide secure access to > expert math tutors 24/7, powering High-Dosage Tutoring in and out of the > classroom. Our "Math Learning Support System" gives teachers extra capacity, > actionable data, and is... ---
**Author:** ![unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/u/47e85d/32.png) [@unebaguettesvp](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/unebaguettesvp)\ **Post date:** [May 13, 2006, 3:35pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/pluralization-of-non-noun-names/60372/3 "2006-05-13T15:35:29Z")
David, OK, thanks for the useful points but then I presume I have to do manually what would normally be done automatically? eg table: policies -\> Policies -\> Policy -\> policy in appropriate places? Regards, Phil. On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 15:14 -0400, Daniel Butler wrote: > engines or plugins, because the add-in tables will remain pluralized, > wanted to completely redevelop their system from > (not to > however a few problems, the most obvious that I can see is the > p\_div > p\_wrkrs > p\_2quots > Phil. > > ``` > _______________________________________________ > Rails mailing list > removed_email_address@domain.invalid > http://lists.rubyonrails.org/mailman/listinfo/rails > > ``` – Philip R. Pricom Pty Limited (ACN 003 252 275 ABN 91 003 252 275) GPO Box 3411 Sydney NSW 2001 Australia Mobile: +61:(0)411-185-652 Fax: +61:(0)2-8221-9599 E-mail: removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid