[Model] [Noob] Table Naming w/ underscores

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Greetings:

I am writing a basic accounting module for an app. Rather unfortunately
the
name “transactions” is a reserved term in Rails (being the only
accounting
term trully representational of a financial transaction). I am left to
come
up with other names. One such name was f_transaction.

This worked on the DB level, but I noticed that the Model name dropped
the
underscore, thus “FTransaction”. How do I refer to the model in the view
layer? Do I use f_transaction, ftransaction? Either way it is currently
returning a nill object at the moment.

Along the same naming issue, when defining a method
“recent_ftransactions”
how does the naming work here too (re: underscoring)?

Thanks, Dave

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D’Andrew,

How do I refer to the model in the view
layer? Do I use f_transaction, ftransaction?

Use FTransaction (the name of the class):
FTransaction.find(12) << - Find the transaction with an id of 12.

Along the same naming issue, when defining a method “recent_ftransactions”
how does the naming work here too (re: underscoring)?

Just keep your method names all lowercase. It doesn’t matter what you
name your methods. So yes, #recent_ftransactions would work.

  • Derek

On 12/31/05, D’Andrew Dave T. [email protected] wrote:

returning a nill object at the moment.

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So would this be the “conventional” naming pattern?

DB Table: fiscal_transactions (model_names)
Model: fiscal_transaction (model_name)
Class: FiscalTransaction (ModelName)
Controller: fiscal_transactions (model_names)
View Reference: (as follows)

<% for fiscal_transaction in @fiscal_transactions %>
<%= fiscal_transaction.amount %></html stuff>
<% end %>

Thanks again, Dave

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D’Andrew “Dave” Thompson wrote:

So would this be the “conventional” naming pattern?

DB Table: fiscal_transactions (model_names)
Model: fiscal_transaction (model_name)
Class: FiscalTransaction (ModelName)
Controller: fiscal_transactions (model_names)
View Reference: (as follows)

<% for fiscal_transaction in @fiscal_transactions %>
<%= fiscal_transaction.amount %></html stuff>
<% end %>

Thanks again, Dave

That’s 99% right. The Controller class would probably be called
FiscalTransactionController, and it would reside in a file named
fiscal_transaction_controller.rb.

Also, as for the loop, I’ve seen the following to be more traditional:

<% @fiscal_transactions.each do |fiscal_transaction| %>

and since you can name the parameter anything you want, you could reduce
it to

<% @fiscal_transactions.each do |t| %>

if you’re looking for brevity. But it’s all syntactic sugar, your way
is just as good.

Jeff