Rails - Sep 2005 - Scaffold generator broken - "The name ** is reserved by Ruby on Rails"

There''s already a similar thread going on about this, but I''ve
just
encountered it myself, and seeing where it''s going, I think a more
obvious
thread title might get some attention and help find a fix.

I''m running the current beta Rails (0.13.1.2203), and when I try and
use the
scaffold generator, I get the following:

$ ruby script/generate scaffold Vehicletype
       exists  app/controllers/
       exists  app/helpers/
       create  app/views/vehicletypes
       exists  test/functional/
       create  app/views/vehicletypes/_form.rhtml
   dependency  model
   The name ''Vehicletype'' is reserved by Ruby on Rails.
   Please choose an alternative and run this generator again.

   Suggestions:


Now, the guy who had this problem before was using the word "Student",
which
at a stretch of the imagination didn''t seem like the most unlikely word
to be
reserved - OK, you have to stretch your imagination rather far, but less 
likely things have happened, somewhere!

However, I would reckon that the probability that "Vehicletype" is a
reserved
word is absolutely zero.  Which leads me to believe that something funky is 
going on here, and that there''s a bug of some sort.

I''ve Googled and found nothing much except some stuff for Rails 0.9,
which
didn''t seem to relate to this problem at all.  So, I''m
wondering if anyone
else is also experiencing this, and if anyone has a fix or workaround for it?

Cheers,

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/

Can you start a clean Rails dir ("rails myapp") and then do "cd
myapp
&& ./script/generate scaffold Vehicletype"?

Jacob

On 9/11/05, Dave Silvester <dave@rentamonkey.com>
wrote:
> There's already a similar thread going on about this, but I've just
> encountered it myself, and seeing where it's going, I think a more
obvious
> thread title might get some attention and help find a fix.
> 
> I'm running the current beta Rails (0.13.1.2203), and when I try and
use the
> scaffold generator, I get the following:
> 
> $ ruby script/generate scaffold Vehicletype
>        exists  app/controllers/
>        exists  app/helpers/
>        create  app/views/vehicletypes
>        exists  test/functional/
>        create  app/views/vehicletypes/_form.rhtml
>    dependency  model
>    The name 'Vehicletype' is reserved by Ruby on Rails.
>    Please choose an alternative and run this generator again.
> 
>    Suggestions:
> 
> 
> Now, the guy who had this problem before was using the word
"Student", which
> at a stretch of the imagination didn't seem like the most unlikely word
to be
> reserved - OK, you have to stretch your imagination rather far, but less
> likely things have happened, somewhere!
> 
> However, I would reckon that the probability that "Vehicletype"
is a reserved
> word is absolutely zero.  Which leads me to believe that something funky is
> going on here, and that there's a bug of some sort.
> 
> I've Googled and found nothing much except some stuff for Rails 0.9,
which
> didn't seem to relate to this problem at all.  So, I'm wondering if
anyone
> else is also experiencing this, and if anyone has a fix or workaround for
it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> ~Dave
> 
> --
> 
> Dave Silvester
> Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
> Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/
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Dave Silvester wrote:
> I''m running the current beta Rails (0.13.1.2203), and when I try
and use
> the scaffold generator, I get the following:
OK, my workaround for now was to uninstall beta Rails, clean out all my other 
old versions of any gems (just being tidy there) leaving only the current 
versions, and revert back to mainstream gem Rails.  This has fixed the problem 
for now, so something strange is definitely going on with the generators in 
beta Rails at the moment.  I''m not brave enough to try edge Rails, so
am not
sure if the problem also exists there.  I can''t see any relevant bugs
listed
at the moment though, so perhaps this is an elusive one?

By the way, I found the following page of reserved words...

http://wiki.rubyonrails.com/rails/show/ReservedWords

... and checked against it, and it came as no surprise to find that 
"Vehicletype" is not a reserved word, and neither is
"Student" for that
matter!  So, the bug is as follows:

The generators seem to be confused about what is a reserved word and what 
isn''t, and are seemingly saying that everything is a reserved word, and
refusing to generate models... I think?


Another aside: the mailing list is having sporadic big delays again, that last 
mail took around 2.5 hours to come through.  I replied on another thread 
earlier, and it came through within minutes.  Something is still not working 
right with this mailing list... oh well!  :-S

~Dave

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Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/

Jacob Quinn Shenker wrote:
> Can you start a clean Rails dir ("rails myapp") and then do
"cd myapp
> && ./script/generate scaffold Vehicletype"?
Sorry, I couldn''t afford to hang around waiting for the mailing list
(delays)
on this one, had to find a fix fast, so I''ve reverted back to
mainstream gem
Rails.  Perhaps "Moshe" (rails at mbdev dot net) can do that for you,
since as
far as I know, the "Student is a reserved word" thread didn''t
ever come to a
conclusion, and looks like the same bug.

Although he''s using mainstream gem Rails, as far as I know?

Weird!

~Dave

-- 

Dave Silvester
Rent-A-Monkey Website Development
Web: http://www.rentamonkey.com/