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diveintohacking
diveintohacking

Reputation: 5193

rails scaffold not plural generate

I would like to generate a scaffolded controller, view and helper named with not pluraled one, but singular one. Howevery, I got pluraled named files like below. I know they are based on the rails convention, but I just would like to create a dictionary page.

$ rails generate scaffold_controller dictionary
  create  app/controllers/dictionaries_controller.rb
  invoke  erb
  create    app/views/dictionaries
  create    app/views/dictionaries/index.html.erb
  create    app/views/dictionaries/edit.html.erb
  create    app/views/dictionaries/show.html.erb
  create    app/views/dictionaries/new.html.erb
  create    app/views/dictionaries/_form.html.erb
  invoke  helper
  create    app/helpers/dictionaries_helper.rb

So, my question is "Are there any better ways or the shortest way to generate a singular named controller/view/helper files by command?"

What I want is just below. I'm wondering if I should make the files manually?

  app/controllers/dictionary_controller.rb
  app/views/dictionary/index.html.erb
  app/helpers/dictionary_helper.rb

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1946

Answers (2)

Sharvy Ahmed
Sharvy Ahmed

Reputation: 7405

There is a railsway of doing this, you can use inflections to document such exceptions:

config/initializers/inflections.rb

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
  inflect.uncountable "dictionary"
end

Upvotes: 4

Mohammad AbuShady
Mohammad AbuShady

Reputation: 42899

Well without messing with any thing in rails you can set up the routes using resource instead of resources more about that here

You'll still use a plural controller name ( if you need processing ), but the URL will be singular, and you won't have all the actions like the plural resources ( more about that in the link ), if you just want one page then limit by using only: :show

resource :dictionary, only: :show

Then you don't even need the contorller, just create the file dictionaries/show.html.haml (or erb) and it would work

http://example.com/dictionary

Upvotes: 2

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