"you will make life easier for yourself if you stick to the Rails conventions for capitalisation and underscores."
Actually I was trying to do that. My boss told me (he is also a newbie) that table names start with a capital letter, though I cannot find documentation to that effect. If you can point me to any references to naming conventions I would appreciate it, thanks. I start each table with "tc_" because I am coming from Drupal where all tables of all modules are in one database and this is necessary to prevent name conflicts. All help is greatly appreciated. -Fred On May 18, 8:32 am, Colin Law <[email protected]> wrote: > On 18 May 2011 15:37, fredrated <[email protected]> wrote: > > > According to 'Agile web development with rails' "... a model is > > automatically mapped to a database table whose name is the plural form > > of the model's class". Sure enough, when I created migrations for > > 'Tc_project', 'Tc_employee' and 'Tc_period' the migration files issue > > a 'create table' with the table names pluralized. However, when I > > issue "Rails generate scaffold Tc_data..." the create table statement > > in the migration DID NOT pluralize 'tc_data' to 'tc_datas'! > > > Does anyone know if this will create a 'convention' problem between > > model and table references for the table 'Tc_data'? > > Unless I hear otherwise I will assume Rails knows what it is doing and > > run the migration as-is and proceed as if nothing is out of the > > ordinary. If Rails chokes on this I will post a reply to my own > > question. > > As Tim has pointed out, this should be datum for the singular and data > for the plural. I would also point out that you will make life easier > for yourself if you stick to the Rails conventions for capitalisation > and underscores. In this case the class would be something like > TcDatum and the table tc_data (or something completely different if > you do not like datum). Similarly I would change the names of the > other classes you mention. > > Colin > Colin -- 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.
