On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:23 PM, David Kahn <d...@structuralartistry.com>wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, May 26, 2011 at 6:06 PM, Avram Dorfman <li...@ruby-forum.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Can someone tell me how to teach the Inflector to stop treating a
>> particular word as irregular that is not?
>>
>> I have an app that has a model named "Regatta" and another model named
>> "RegattaInclusion" (which is the join model for an HMT relation.
>>
>> Out of the box, "regatta".singularize returns "regattum", which is not a
>> word.
>>
>> I have tried this:
>>
>> ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
>> # insert option here
>> end
>>
>> With several options:
>>
>> 1. inflect.singular("regatta", "regatta")
>> # "regatta".singularize works, but "regattas".singularize returns
>> "regattas"
>> 2. if I add inflect.plural("regattas", "regatta"), it works the same
>> as in 1.
>> 3. inflect.irregular("regatta", "regattas")
>> # has no effect
>>
>
> I am replying as I am usually the one killed on inflections. So, I found if
> I include both of the below, I get good output:
>
> inflect.singular('regatas', 'regatta')
> inflect.plural('regatta', 'regattas')
>
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :001 > "regatta".pluralize
> => "regattas"
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :002 > "regattas".singularize
> => "regatta"
> ruby-1.8.7-p334 :003 >
>
Sorry, did not check:
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :004 > "regatta".singularize
=> "regattum"
ruby-1.8.7-p334 :005 >
So, no dice. Annoying and stange, huh?
>
> Does this work for you? I can also conrifm that your other examples are the
> same on my environ.
>
>
>>
>> None of the tools in the Inflector::Inflections module seem to address
>> this problem - a word that looks like an irregular plural, but is really
>> just a normal singular.
>>
>> In case you are wondering why this matters, it's because I'm using
>> Railroad to build an ERD, and it is giving me a fake entity called
>> "Regattum" that some of my relationships are going through. If I try to
>> fix it with inflections, then it crashes because Rails tells it the
>> class is called "Regattas" instead of "Regatta."
>>
>>
>>
>> 1. inflect.irregular "regatta", "regattas" # "regatta".singularize
>> =>"regattum"
>> 2. inflect.uncountable "regattum" #
>>
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