# Was "Inflector" moved in Rails 2.0?

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/was-inflector-moved-in-rails-2-0/131210>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [March 6, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/was-inflector-moved-in-rails-2-0/131210 "2008-03-06T23:11:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![rubylicious](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rubylicious](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubylicious)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:11pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/was-inflector-moved-in-rails-2-0/131210/1 "2008-03-06T23:11:38Z")

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Trying to place the following code in my “environment.rb” file is  
throwing an “uninitialized constant Inflector (NameError)”.

Did they move where these types of customized rules were supposed to be  
declared?

**CODE**  
Inflector.inflections do |inflect|  
inflect.uncountable(“media”)  
end

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**Author:** ![rubylicious](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/91b2a8/32.png) [@rubylicious](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/rubylicious)\
**Post date:** [March 6, 2008, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/was-inflector-moved-in-rails-2-0/131210/2 "2008-03-06T23:18:23Z")

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Corey M. wrote:

> Trying to place the following code in my “environment.rb” file is  
> throwing an “uninitialized constant Inflector (NameError)”.
> 
> Did they move where these types of customized rules were supposed to be  
> declared?
> 
> **CODE**  
> Inflector.inflections do |inflect|  
> inflect.uncountable(“media”)  
> end

News flash.

They moved it to …/config/initializers/inflections.rb

Thanks anyway.