Question

I want to create a rails’ model like FileURL without having to name the file file_u_r_l.rb. How does one go about doing something like this? I understand that you can set table name explicitly but how does one override the default filename to classname mapping?

Thanks
Prateek

Answer 1

You don’t need to do anything. Rails’ .underscore method translates ‘FileURL’ to ‘file_url’, and will look for a file with the same base name in the load path.

If ActiveRecord does not guess the correct table name, use set_table_name:

class FileURL < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name "file_urls"
  ..
end