Rails - Aug 2006 - Something to consider when strange words appear in error messages

I was having a problem running a test using a fixture called receives. The 
error was class "Receife" not found. Being new at this it took me a
while
to figure out that I needed an inflection rule, because receives was being 
inflected to receife and then classify camelcased it into Receife.
>> "receives".singularize => "receife"
>> "receives".classify => "Receife"
I suspect the two rules responsible for this are:
# 
C:\ruby\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\activesupport-1.3.1\lib\active_support\inflections.rb
#  inflect.plural(/(?:([^f])fe|([lr])f)$/i, ''\1\2ves'')
#  inflect.singular(/([^f])ves$/i, ''\1fe'')

In my environment.rb, I tried creating a simple plural and singular rule, 
but they didn''t make any difference. I ended up creating an irregular 
rule, which worked fine. (Probably a DRYer solution anyway) but I''m not
sure why the rules didn''t work.

Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
#  inflect.plural ''/^(receive)$/i'', ''\1s''
#  inflect.singular ''/^(receive)s/i'', ''\1''
  inflect.irregular ''receive'', ''receives''
end 

Anyway, I hope this helps you avoid some unnecessary head scratching!

Regards,
Dave Dumaresq
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Information and Educational Technology
Kwantlen University College 
"So powerful is the light of unity that it can illuminate the whole 
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