Rails - Mar 2006 - Naming conventions for models on older database????

Hi,

I am using RoR for my web development. But Database is already created 
(Older database) with its own table name without RoR Specificcations.
Table names are:-
blacklist_patterns
category
comment
moderation
store
vote

What will be names for models corresponding to my above tables? If I 
want to specify my own names to models? Can I do it? If yes then How?

Please tell me.
Thanx in advance.
Prash

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On 3/27/06, Prashant Tiwari <tiwari_p_k@yahoo.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am using RoR for my web development. But Database is already created
> (Older database) with its own table name without RoR Specificcations.
> Table names are:-
> blacklist_patterns
> category
> comment
> moderation
> store
> vote
>
> What will be names for models corresponding to my above tables? If I
> want to specify my own names to models? Can I do it? If yes then How?
>
You can name your models however you wish, and use the
"set_table_name" method to specify this.
class Comment < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name ''comment''
end

One further piece of trickery: currently, your unit test fixtures need
to be named after the actual table, rather than after the model.
So, put your comment fixtures in comment.yml, and refer to them with
''fixtures :comment''