Yesterday, I opened a GitHub Issue<https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/7071> about moving Rails inflections to an initializer. The idea wasn't received well, understandably, as generating a large initializer with new Rails apps is pretty unappealing. However, the core members seemed open to the discussion of alternatives continuing here.
For those of you not in the know, inflections (the defined rules for singularization/pluralization) in Rails are currently frozen. What this means is that most pull requests submitted that add, remove, or change inflections are closed and not merged. The reasoning behind this is to avoid breaking existing applications that depend on these inflections, even if they are errant. People are advised to fix (yes, fix) these inflections themselves in their inflections initializer. In my opinion, with a major 4.0 release coming up, inflections should be unfrozen and fixed/cleaned up. There is a lot that is bad in this file, and I don't think fear of breaking existing apps is a good reason to freeze mistakes. People should read the CHANGELOG when updating. They should read the upgrade guides. It's not that hard to redefine the inflection you need in that initializer, and the current inflections are based mostly around exceptions to grammatical rules rather than the rules themselves. If people want specifics, I've written a post about this: http://davidcelis.com/blog/2012/07/18/the-current-state-of-rails-inflections/ I'm curious as to what others think. I'd like to help make this a better framework, and I've heard a lot of complaints from personal colleagues about how messy the inflections are. -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rubyonrails-talk/-/zG5cLvQmmUkJ. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
