Re: Re: Rails'' inflections are messy

Colin Law
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 19:48:23 -0000

On 19 July 2012 20:07, Linus Pettersson
<linus.pettersson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> At least they should fix the ones that are incorrect...
>
> "Octopus".pluralize should return "Octopuses" and NOT
"Octopi"... :)

But then all those applications that rely on the current pluralisation
of octopus would break when upgraded.  Innumerable applications around
the internet would come to their knees.

Colin

>
>
>
> Den torsdagen den 19:e juli 2012 kl. 20:23:15 UTC+2 skrev davidcelis:
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thursday, July 19, 2012 11:22:40 AM UTC-7, davidcelis wrote:
>>>
>>> For anybody who shares my sentiment, until Rails core decides
it''s time
>>> to clean up their inflections, I''ve published a gem to
provide more sane
>>> default pluralization/singularization rules:
>>> https://github.com/davidcelis/inflections
>>>
>>> Here''s the difference:
>>>
>>> 4 pluralization rules (down from 21)
>>> 5 singularization rules (down from 27)
>>> 3 irregularities (down from 7)
>>> 1 uncountable (down from 10)
>>>
>>> Ahhh. Much better.
>>>
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