inflection

I am using Ruby on Rails to create a website for a game I play. I have a User model and a Starbase model. The relationship I am trying to setup is like so class User < ActiveRecord::Base has_many :starbases end class Starbase < ActiveRecord::Base belongs_to :user end However when I open script/console and try to access the users starbases it gives me an error: NameError: uninitialized constant User::Starbasis . It seems as if it is a problem with inflection and rails is not pluralizing starbase correct. I have tried adding this to the inflections.rb in the intializers folder: ActiveSupport:

I'm preparing some table names for an ORM, and I want to turn plural table names into single entity names. My only problem is finding an algorithm that does it reliably. Here's what I'm doing right now: If a word ends with -ies , I replace the ending with -y If a word ends with -es , I remove this ending. This doesn't always work however - for example, it replaces Types with Typ Otherwise, I just remove the trailing -s Does anyone know of a better algorithm? Those are all general rules (and good ones) but English is not a language for the faint of heart :-). My own preference would be to have

In java, it is possible to get the class and method that called the current method (the method in which you get the StackTrace). My question is, can I get the arguments that were passed to the method that called this method? I need this for debugging purposes. Eg: baseClass { initialFunc(input) { var modifiedInput = input + " I modified you"; otherClass.doSomething(modifiedInput); } } otherClass { doSomething(input) { //GET THE ARGUMENTS PASSED TO THE METHOD OF THE CLASS THAT CALLED THIS METHOD } } Can one get this information from the stacktrace, or are there other means? (Note that I need to