And I solved it myself... I have to put the capitalized versions of the words in the inflections, or rather make them a case insensitive regex!
Apologies for the noise. stuart.coyle wrote: > I'm having difficulty getting inflections to work properly. > I have put this into environment inflection.rb : > > ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect| > inflect.plural 'criterion', 'criteria' > inflect.singular 'criteria', 'criterion' > end > > I have a habtm relationship between component_types and criteria with > tables called > component_types, criteria and the join table component_types_criteria > > But when I do this... > >> c = Criterion.new > => #<Criterion id: nil, question: nil, notes: nil, result_type_id: > nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> > >> c.save > => true > >> d = ComponentType.new > => #<ComponentType id: nil, name: nil, manufacturer: nil, description: > nil, created_at: nil, updated_at: nil> > >> d.save > => true > >> d.criteria << c > NameError: uninitialized constant ComponentType::Criterium > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.1.1/lib/ > active_support/dependencies.rb:493:in `const_missing' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > base.rb:1914:in `compute_type' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > reflection.rb:129:in `send' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > reflection.rb:129:in `klass' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > reflection.rb:137:in `quoted_table_name' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > associations/has_and_belongs_to_many_association.rb:80:in > `construct_sql' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > associations/association_collection.rb:8:in `initialize' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > associations.rb:1135:in `new' > from /Library/Ruby/Gems/1.8/gems/activerecord-2.1.1/lib/active_record/ > associations.rb:1135:in `criteria' > from (irb):8 > >> > > I get a NameError, apparently ActiveRecord is looking for the singular > of criteria which it thinks is criterium. Active Record is bad at > latin, methinks. > > Any clues? Or do I just have to refactor and rename the Criterion > model to Criterium? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

