Re: Re: Rails'' inflections are messy

Michael Pavling
Thu, 19 Jul 2012 20:01:29 -0000

On 19 July 2012 20:48, Colin Law
<clanlaw-gM/Ye1E23mwN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
wrote:
> 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.

:-)

Surely all those sites'' developers could just override the inflector
back to what it used to be, and get on with all the other tasks they
need to complete to upgrade to Rails4?