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Ruby Build a Simple Ruby on Rails Application Getting Started with Rails Generate a Rails Application

Posted by Pete Cass
Pete Cass
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Why does a uri of /statuses get created?

We generate a scaffold called status. But how is a Uri generated that points to localhost:3000/statuses. Why is it not .../status?

1 Answer

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,148 Points

Rails has a naming convention, and is smart enough to pluralize when it needs to based on that convention.

On this page: http://guides.rubyonrails.org/command_line.html about halfway down, they show a rails generate scaffold HighScore example.

Part of what gets generated below it shows is resources :high_scores, notice it's plural. Notice the controller name is high_scores_controller, but the model name is high_score, or singular. All of this falls in the Rails convention.