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Rodolfo del Valle
Rodolfo del Valle

Reputation: 55

Best way to handle reserved names in a Rails App

I am working on the model of a Rails app and half of the names I need to use are reserved (and they are also the ones that make more sense within the application. I don't want to find another name). What's the best way to handle this?

I am thinking of using a prefix for all the models (for the ones with reserved words and not) My ideas for "Process":

MyProcess

TheProcess

So whatever prefix I choose, I will use it for every model:

MyUser

TheUser

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 110

Answers (1)

Sergio Tulentsev
Sergio Tulentsev

Reputation: 230521

The standard way to avoid name clashes is namespacing. That is, you put all your "reserved" names (and all of the others, for consistency) in a module. Something like this:

module MyApp
  class Signal
    # code here
  end
end

This way, while within MyApp, Signal means your class and ::Signal will be the one from ruby.

Upvotes: 2

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