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Peter Lawless
Peter Lawless
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Posted by Peter Lawless
Peter Lawless
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Singular/Plural model names in Rails

Can somebody help me understand how rails keeps track of model names, especially when the plural name is not just the singular with an 's' tacked on the end? In these videos on ActiveRecord in particular, I don't understand how rails knows that "time_entries" is the plural of "TimeEntry" or vice versa.

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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
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Rails has a number of utility functions like underscore/camelize and pluralize/singularize that handle transforming one name to another. They are in a module called ActiveSupport::Inflector