Rails: Handling a scaffolding, such as “Sheep,” that has the same plural and singular form

问题

I'm wanting to create a model called CommunicationMeans (or, alternatively, MeansOfCommunication). However, this is both the singular and plural form of this term. I ran this:

$ rails g scaffold CommunicationMeans

It generated a model named CommunicationMean and a controller named CommunicationMeansController. I need the model to also be named CommunicationMeans. I vaguely remember an example in some documentation using a Sheep model, but what is the "correct" way to handle this situation? Thanks.

回答1:

In config/initializers/inflections.rb, you can add 'means' as uncountable.

EDIT: Ok, had to add the whole compound, in camel case, but it worked:

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
   inflect.uncountable 'CommunicationMeans'
end

回答2:

I think adding it to the inflection rules in config/initializers/inflections.rb should be sufficient - i.e.

Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
    inflect.plural 'sheep', 'sheep'
end

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7489054/rails-handling-a-scaffolding-such-as-sheep-that-has-the-same-plural-and-sin