Ruby on Rails plural (controller) and singular (model) convention - explanation

Question

As per Ruby on Rails convention, controller names get pluralized while model names are singular. Example : a Users controller, but a User model.

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Answer 1

Ruby on Rails follow linguistic convention. That means a model represents a single user, whereas a database table consists of many users.

Answer 2

An instance of your User model represents a single user, so is singular. The users table, by contrast, holds all of your users, so it's plural.

Answer 3

in rails conntroller and table name are plural model alone is singular.In a two word name second word is pluralized !

Answer 4

To complete Emily's answer

An instance of your User model represents a single user, so is singular. The users table, by contrast, holds all of your users, so it's plural.

Answer 5

Because the table holds users. Its just the convention.