Question

For example, I’m using “Bonus” as my model, so I’d expect “bonuses” to be the plural form and “bonus” to be the singular form.

However, in Ruby, this results in:

"bonus".pluralize # bonus
"bonuses".singularize # bonuse

So, when I do a “has_many :bonuses”, for example, it doesn’t use the Bonus.rb model (since Ruby expects a Bonuse.rb model instead). Is there a way to correct that in Ruby on Rails somehow such that “bonuses” acts as the plural form for the model bonus.rb?

Answer 1

In config/initializers, you will find a file called inflections.rb. There are some instructions in here, but you will want something along the lines of:

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.irregular 'bonus', 'bonuses'
end