Rails naming convention for model: community

Rails
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Hello,

How does Rails deal with the pluralization of community. I have
“community”
as my model name. Will Rails automatically look for a table name
“communities” or do I have to name the table “communitys”?

Thanks.

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On 5/21/06, Sam D. [email protected] wrote:

Hello,

How does Rails deal with the pluralization of community. I have “community”
as my model name. Will Rails automatically look for a table name
“communities” or do I have to name the table “communitys”?

Rails will look for a table named communities. Rails knows about most
correct English pluralizations. I believe this is a Ruby library.

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How does Rails deal with the pluralization of community. I have
“community”
as my model name. Will Rails automatically look for a table name
“communities” or do I have to name the table “communitys”?

“community” will become “communities” when pluralized. You may want
to have a look at the documentation for Rails’ inflector:

Peak Obsession

Also, if you’re unsure about how a word will be pluralized/
singularized, try Geoffrey Grosenbach’s Pluralizer:

http://nubyonrails.com/tools/pluralize

– Michael D.

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The pluralisations are done with a load of regular expressions in the
inflections.rb file (have a gander:
http://dev.rubyonrails.org/svn/rails/tags/rel_1-1-2/activesupport/lib/active_support/inflections.rb).

You can add others to individual projects by changing environments.rb.
Just look at the commented out bit for an example.

-Nathan