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Pluralizations and Singularizations (Inflections) for "Media/Medium" in Rails 5

I'm working with Rails 5 an I just have created a Media model using scaffold tool.

rails g scaffold media name:string

And I got different names and routes and view etc...

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It was not right pluralising, so when I rake routes I got medium unexpected routes and because of that I got different problems in the views.

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When I try to use <%= form_for @media do .. I got complain about no method media_index_path.

How can I get it fixed and working well?

Solution

  • Searching all day about this and being a little bit more curious when I run the very first scaffold it recommended to use something called inflections which basically is in charge of the pluralising and singularising words for class names:

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    What I did to get it fixed was to use inflections in the next way:

    1. Delete the model I just have created.

      rails d scaffold Media

    2. Edit config/initializers/inflections.rb with:

      ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
    # Here you can put the singular and plural form you expect
    inflect.irregular 'media', 'medias'
end

    3. Now execute the scaffold again:

      rails g scaffold Media

    Now you must have everything in the way you expected. Because you have overwritten the Pluralizations and Singularizations (Inflections) in Ruby on Rails.

    I hope it could be useful.