Question

I have a model named ActiveDns. When I run

rails g scaffold_controller ActiveDns

I get the message

Plural version of the model detected, using singularized version. Override with –force-plural.

Now, the controller and views are generated pretending that the singular is ActiveDn and the plural is ActiveDns, and I get silly stuff like link_to new_dn_path. The --force-plural argument doesn’t appear to fix this:

rails g scaffold_controller ActiveDns --force-plural

still results in controllers using variables named @active_dn and views using new_dn_path, with rails 3.2.3. I am removing files between tries using rails d scaffold_controller ActiveDns.

What’s the right way to do this?

Answer 1

What’s the right way to do this?

I use inflections to document uncountable entities.

config/initializers/inflections.rb

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.uncountable "ActiveDns"
end

Then you get:

$ rails g scaffold_controller ActiveDns
      create  app/controllers/active_dns_controller.rb
      invoke  erb
      create    app/views/active_dns
      create    app/views/active_dns/index.html.erb
      create    app/views/active_dns/edit.html.erb
      create    app/views/active_dns/show.html.erb
      create    app/views/active_dns/new.html.erb
      create    app/views/active_dns/_form.html.erb
      invoke  test_unit
      create    test/functional/active_dns_controller_test.rb
      invoke  helper
      create    app/helpers/active_dns_helper.rb
      invoke    test_unit
      create      test/unit/helpers/active_dns_helper_test.rb

Is this what you wanted?