I personally don't like them at all. I wish that all the names of controllers/routes/models were unchanged so I wouldn't have to keep deciding whether I needed to pluralize. I remember spending too much time trying to straighten out a scaffold I created named "series". It created a model named "Serie"! I shouldn't have to spend energy figuring that out. It should use the exact name I give it.
On Wed, Jul 18, 2012 at 8:41 PM, davidcelis <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday, I opened a GitHub Issue 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]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
