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Don P
Don P

Reputation: 63657

Do I use camelCase to reference a rails model that is two words?

I have a model called AlphaUser. When I create a form for it, do I camelCase the symbol?

<%= form_for :alphaUser

or 

<%= form_for :alpha_user

Upvotes: 0

Views: 260

Answers (1)

Helios de Guerra
Helios de Guerra

Reputation: 3475

You don't want to use camel case, especially when using a symbol (e.g. :alphaUser).

If your model is AlphaUser, you'll either want to use:

<%= form_for AlphaUser.new %>

or

<%= form_for :alpha_user %>

These two approaches behave differently, so it kind of depends on what you want to do... See this post for more info on the difference: Ruby on Rails : symbol as argument in form_for

Or better yet instantiate the new object in your controller (e.g. @alpha_user = AlphaUser.new) and use that in your form_for, e.g.

<%= form_form @alpha_user %>

Upvotes: 2

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