Rails - Jun 2006 - script/generate scaffold pluralizes class names

Hi everyone,

I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the list.  
Here''s my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem:

Ruby version
1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0)
RubyGems version
0.8.11
Rails version
1.1.2
Active Record version
1.14.2
Action Pack version
1.12.1
Action Web Service version
1.1.2
Action Mailer version
1.2.1
Active Support version
1.3.1

I did "rails myapp" and inserted "scaffold :foo" into the  
controllers, which worked fine but I wanted to have the scaffold code  
generated so I could see it and tweak it. So I did a "script/generate  
scaffold foo" and it generated new views and controllers with  
scaffolding in them, but now the controllers and views are all  
pluralized: my user controller became users, my tag controller became  
tags, etc. So looking at my file tree I wound up with two files names  
tag_controller.rb & tags_controller.rb - inside the first line says  
"TagsController" not "TagController" like when rails does
it. Is this
a bug? Why would the generate script pluralize things just because I  
want the scaffolding code inserted?

Is this a problem- will I wind up with other problems because my  
controllers/views/who-knows-what-else are plural now? Every code  
example I''ve read shows the controllers all being in the singular.

Any advice is appreciated!

Thanks,
-Jason

Jason Frankovitz wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the
list. Here''s
> my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem:
>
> Ruby version
> 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0)
> RubyGems version
> 0.8.11
> Rails version
> 1.1.2
> Active Record version
> 1.14.2
> Action Pack version
> 1.12.1
> Action Web Service version
> 1.1.2
> Action Mailer version
> 1.2.1
> Active Support version
> 1.3.1
>
> I did "rails myapp" and inserted "scaffold :foo" into
the controllers,
> which worked fine but I wanted to have the scaffold code generated so 
> I could see it and tweak it. So I did a "script/generate scaffold
foo"
> and it generated new views and controllers with scaffolding in them, 
> but now the controllers and views are all pluralized: my user 
> controller became users, my tag controller became tags, etc. So 
> looking at my file tree I wound up with two files names 
> tag_controller.rb & tags_controller.rb - inside the first line says 
> "TagsController" not "TagController" like when rails
does it. Is this
> a bug? Why would the generate script pluralize things just because I 
> want the scaffolding code inserted?
>
> Is this a problem- will I wind up with other problems because my 
> controllers/views/who-knows-what-else are plural now? Every code 
> example I''ve read shows the controllers all being in the singular.
>
> Any advice is appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
> -Jason
>
Hi Jason,

That is normal behaviour.  When you "scaffold" an item, the URL will
be
singular.  When you generate the scaffold code, it will be in the 
plural.  In fact, you will find that both work fine.  For example, you 
could do:
http://app/item  #this will use the default scaffold
or
http://app/items #this will use the generated code and changes made to 
the generated code will show here

Hope this helps.  RoR has a seemingly esoteric naming convention, which 
makes life a lot easier when you get used to it :)
Cheers
Mohit.

You can control this behavior by changing your generate command by
using the syntax

script/generate scaffold Model controller

e.g.,

script/generate scaffold Item item

script/generate scaffold Product admin




On 6/7/06, Mohit Sindhwani <mohits@onghu.com>
wrote:
> Jason Frankovitz wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > I''m a rails & ruby nuby, and this is my first post to the
list. Here''s
> > my environment in case it helps diagnose my problem:
> >
> > Ruby version
> > 1.8.4 (powerpc-darwin8.6.0)
> > RubyGems version
> > 0.8.11
> > Rails version
> > 1.1.2
> > Active Record version
> > 1.14.2
> > Action Pack version
> > 1.12.1
> > Action Web Service version
> > 1.1.2
> > Action Mailer version
> > 1.2.1
> > Active Support version
> > 1.3.1
> >
> > I did "rails myapp" and inserted "scaffold :foo"
into the controllers,
> > which worked fine but I wanted to have the scaffold code generated so
> > I could see it and tweak it. So I did a "script/generate scaffold
foo"
> > and it generated new views and controllers with scaffolding in them,
> > but now the controllers and views are all pluralized: my user
> > controller became users, my tag controller became tags, etc. So
> > looking at my file tree I wound up with two files names
> > tag_controller.rb & tags_controller.rb - inside the first line
says
> > "TagsController" not "TagController" like when
rails does it. Is this
> > a bug? Why would the generate script pluralize things just because I
> > want the scaffolding code inserted?
> >
> > Is this a problem- will I wind up with other problems because my
> > controllers/views/who-knows-what-else are plural now? Every code
> > example I''ve read shows the controllers all being in the
singular.
> >
> > Any advice is appreciated!
> >
> > Thanks,
> > -Jason
> >
> Hi Jason,
>
> That is normal behaviour.  When you "scaffold" an item, the URL
will be
> singular.  When you generate the scaffold code, it will be in the
> plural.  In fact, you will find that both work fine.  For example, you
> could do:
> http://app/item  #this will use the default scaffold
> or
> http://app/items #this will use the generated code and changes made to
> the generated code will show here
>
> Hope this helps.  RoR has a seemingly esoteric naming convention, which
> makes life a lot easier when you get used to it :)
> Cheers
> Mohit.
>
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