Question

For some reason when I ran rails generate resource admin on my new Rails app, Rails generated a resource called admins. Is there any reason for it doing this? I would like the resource to be called admin, not admins.

Here is the output of running rails generate resource admin:

invoke  active_record
create    db/migrate/20130117002055_create_admins.rb
create    app/models/admin.rb
invoke    test_unit
create      test/unit/admin_test.rb
create      test/fixtures/admins.yml
invoke  controller
create    app/controllers/admins_controller.rb
invoke    erb
create      app/views/admins
invoke    test_unit
create      test/functional/admins_controller_test.rb
invoke    helper
create      app/helpers/admins_helper.rb
invoke      test_unit
create        test/unit/helpers/admins_helper_test.rb
invoke    assets
invoke      coffee
create        app/assets/javascripts/admins.js.coffee
invoke      scss
create        app/assets/stylesheets/admins.css.scss
invoke  resource_route
route    resources :admins

Answer 1

Rails follows a plural naming convention by default if you wish to override this you can use custom inflection rules or edit the enviroment.rb file both ways can be found in “How do I override rails naming conventions?“.