Question

Here are the steps I did. In command line:

rails new lcdemo
rails generate scaffold Cove title:string

(created an entry in seeds.rb)

rake db:migrate
rake db:seed

In the controller and view files, instance variables are named cofe instead of cove.

Answer 1

The reason

"cove".pluralize
=> "coves"
"coves".singularize
=> "cofe"

The solution

You can edit your config/initializers/inflections.rb file to create a custom inflection to teach Rails that the singular of “coves” is “cove”.

inflect.irregular 'cove', 'coves'