Rails - Jan 2006 - Pluralizations

Hi, I''m new to Ruby and Rails, and I''m running Ruby 1.8.4 with
Rails 1.0
on Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy).

I wanted to have a model Software, with the table as software (since 
''software'' is the plural too). I appreciate one can simply use
something
like use_table or whatever (can''t remember the exact command) in the 
Model file, but I''d much rather change the inflections.rb file and 
update Rails to use the proper pluralization.

I found *an* inflections.rb file in: (not sure if there''s another 
inflections file somewhere else which I should edit)

/usr/lib/ruby/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/

and I changed the line:
inflect.uncountable %w( equipment information rice money species series 
fish sheep)

to:
inflect.uncountable %w( equipment information rice money species series 
fish sheep software)

and nothing happened (I tried <%= "Software".pluralize %> in a
Rails
app) so I restarted apache2, and still nothing happened.

I restarted my computer (just in case I had to restart something which I 
didn''t know about), and still comes up as ''software''.


So...is there anything I need to do to get Rails to use the updated 
file, or am I editing the wrong file?

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I found out from a helpful guy on the rails IRC.

In case someone else read this and also wondered how, you have to edit 
the environment.rb file. This doesn''t update Rails, so it''s
app
specific, not quite what I wanted but good enough.

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Instead of updating Rails source files, I''d make this change in your
application''s environment. In your environment.rb file, add the
following:

Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.uncountable ''software''
end

That will do what you need, and won''t require you to mess with Rails
files
whenever you update Rails or move your app to a different server.

Gabe

On 1/9/06, Christopher Wright <chriswright@post.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi, I''m new to Ruby and Rails, and I''m running Ruby 1.8.4
with Rails 1.0
> on Ubuntu 5.10 (breezy).
>
> I wanted to have a model Software, with the table as software (since
> ''software'' is the plural too). I appreciate one can
simply use something
> like use_table or whatever (can''t remember the exact command) in
the
> Model file, but I''d much rather change the inflections.rb file and
> update Rails to use the proper pluralization.
>
> I found *an* inflections.rb file in: (not sure if there''s another
> inflections file somewhere else which I should edit)
>
> /usr/lib/ruby/gems/activesupport-1.2.5/lib/active_support/
>
> and I changed the line:
> inflect.uncountable %w( equipment information rice money species series
> fish sheep)
>
> to:
> inflect.uncountable %w( equipment information rice money species series
> fish sheep software)
>
> and nothing happened (I tried <%= "Software".pluralize %>
in a Rails
> app) so I restarted apache2, and still nothing happened.
>
> I restarted my computer (just in case I had to restart something which I
> didn''t know about), and still comes up as
''software''.
>
>
> So...is there anything I need to do to get Rails to use the updated
> file, or am I editing the wrong file?
>
> --
> Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.
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