Question

I looked around on Stack Overflow and Agile Development with Rails but couldn’t find anything that answered all the parts of this I need.

I just generated a Cow model in rails. Apparently, Rails uses an antiquated plural of cow ("kine"), so when I created that model, it built a Kine migration:

class CreateKine < ActiveRecord::Migration
  def change
    create_table :kine do |t|
      t.string :name
      t.string :farm
      t.string :breed

      t.timestamps
    end
  end
end

I know I could go into the model’s .rb file and set_table_name back to cow, but I’m worried about associated controllers. If I create a Cows controller, will it not sync up?

How do I get everything to be Cow/Cows?

This is one of my first apps, and I’m already way confused by managing controller-model associations, so this inflection issue doesn’t help.

Answer 1

Create an inflection here is an example:

config>initializers>inflections.rb

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.irregular 'cow', 'cows'
end