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...to run into a large number of models and naming conflicts. I found out that I can switch big_complex_named_model.rb to module/simple_model.rb which changes BigComplexNamedModel to Module::SimpleModel which cleans things up quite a bit. However, if I run: ''Module::SimpleModel''.tableize I get ''module/simple_models'' which is not a valid table name. If it were ''module_simple_model'', or ''module__simple_model'' (to differentiate modules from class names) my life would be that much easier. Could this be considered a Rails bug, or...

...ctiveRecord class defined in a plugin. The problem is that ActiveRecord thinks I am doing an STI and is looking up a table that doesn''t exist. Currently, I have a method in the parent class that looks like this: def self.fix_table_name class_eval do set_table_name(Inflector.tableize(self.to_s)) end end The problem is that this method has to be manually called from each inheriting class. There must be a better way to execute this code. Any ideas? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

So, RoR is better at grammer than I. Well so is my nine year old. If I have a table named "people_type" will Rails see this as singular because of the _type or will it consider it the plural of "person_type" ? Is there a link to Rails that lists what words it knows, or what words not to use in table design etc. Kindest regards. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.

Hello, i have a problem with autoloading model classes. I have had similar problems before when a file''s name in Rails'' opinion did not match with the name of the class defined inside, but eventually everything worked, so i didn''t look into details. This time the problem comes from running Unit Tests and does not want to go away. I have a model class KnownIP defined in

.../gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/../../inflector.rb:34: warning: method redefined; discarding old demodulize /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/../../inflector.rb:38: warning: method redefined; discarding old tableize /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/../../inflector.rb:42: warning: method redefined; discarding old classify /usr/local/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-1.0.4/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/../../inflector.rb:46: warning: method redefin...

Hi all According to the Agile 2nd Ed book I added the line encoding: utf8 to my database.yml connections. But now when running rake I get plenty of errors: Character set ''utf-8'' is not a compiled character set and is not specified in the ''/usr/local/mysql/share/mysql/charsets/Index'' file What''s wrong here? I checked this Index file, but it seems to