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Richlewis
Richlewis

Reputation: 15374

Rails model singular format

This is more a question to see if an error has occurred when creating a model in my app.

I have created a model in the usual way

rails g model Media

Now i thought that this would actually create the following

 class CreateMedias < ActiveRecord::Migration
   def change
     create_table :medias do |t|
       t.timestamps
     end
   end
 end

but it didnt it created

  class CreateMedia < ActiveRecord::Migration
    def change
      create_table :media do |t|
        t.timestamps
      end
    end
  end

I thought the model represented as single media but the database consists of many medias. Why would the migration not change to medias? Is it best to delete this model and try it again or is this normal behaviour?

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 934

Answers (2)

Евгений Масленков
Евгений Масленков

Reputation: 6282

Media as data type is not countable. So you could add inflections. Just put further code into your config/initializers/inflection.rb

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect| inflect.uncountable 'media' end

see docks here

Upvotes: 3

oldergod
oldergod

Reputation: 15010

Media is the plural of Medium.

The clean way would be to have a Medium model and Media for table name.

Upvotes: 5

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