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Hi everybody, is it possible to override standard RoR table nomination/pluralization to include a suffix? I have some tables with usr_ prefix but i would use "real" table name in model naming. For example i have table usr_accesslogs; in normal use i should create a model called UsrAccesslog instead Accesslog. Is it possible to do this?? Thanx Davide

Hi, I''m seriously considering using Rails to develop several internal corporate web apps that will need to interact with well-established database systems (3 systems running SQL Server, Oracle, and PostgreSQL). The schema on these systems are basically set in stone. Can a Rails application interact with an existing schema without serious Rails modification? From what I''ve

Hello, i''m new in ruby rails framework. I have the following problem. I try to create a scaffold for a certain model of my db, but since ruby rails doesn''t assume the table name corectly (its incidents_reported ) i get errors .... Besides renaming the table :) is there a way to ''tell'' ruby rails the name of the table? I haven''t been able to find any

Hi, I''m a complete newbie to this, I''m afraid. Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere, but I''ve had a look, and can''t find the answers I''m looking for, especially for using Rails 2.0. We have an existing database which we would need to connect Rails to, and the database structure is not what Rails would seem to expect. Firstly, tables are not

I have rewritten a java webapp into rails. The database structure is basically the same except that: 1) in the legacy app, several of the tables did not use ID numbers, but relied on other fields as the primary key 2) in the legacy app, there is a join table that uses email address and category names to do the join, not ID numbers I would like to move or change this database to match my new

Dear all, I have a doubt, How to fetch records from tables, which are not having ID field as its primary key. If possible, please tell me to way to extract data from those tables. -- with regds, Nahalingam N. Kanakavel. (http://www.nahalingam.bravehost.com/PlanetN/) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL:

I rememeber seeing an article about how to cope with legacy databases where the primary key is defined as VARCHAR2. I only want read-access to the data. Does anyone have a link to such an article? Or can give advice? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

I am working with an existing database and have to keep all table and field names as they are. ''tblcustomers'' and ''tblitems'' are linked by the ''tblcustomers'' id field ''tblcustomersid''. In ''tblitems'', the foreign key is called ''txtcustomerid''. I have already set the customers model to

Here is a sample of the database structure I want to have: someclientname-websites someclientname-canned_responses someclientname-canned_responses_websites anotherclientname-websites anotherclientname-canned_responses anotherclientname-canned_responses_websites As you can see I want to prepend the name of my future clients to the table name so that they use completely different sets of data. I