I have the following line in my routes.rb (Rails 4.1.4):
resources :request_caches
However, when I run rake routes I get the following output:
request_caches GET /request_caches(.:format) request_caches#index
POST /request_caches(.:format) request_caches#create
new_request_cach GET /request_caches/new(.:format) request_caches#new
edit_request_cach GET /request_caches/:id/edit(.:format) request_caches#edit
request_cach GET /request_caches/:id(.:format) request_caches#show
PATCH /request_caches/:id(.:format) request_caches#update
PUT /request_caches/:id(.:format) request_caches#update
DELETE /request_caches/:id(.:format) request_caches#destroy
As you can see, Rails somehow maps request_caches plural to request_cach singular. But it should be request_cache. Is this some kind of special case, because of the word caches? I've also played around with
resources :request_caches, as: :request_cache
But this results in wrong routes like request_cache_index. And furthermore, I think this is a standard task and should be solved clearly using Rails intern route helpers.
So, what am I doing wrong?
Rails guesses. It's not perfect. In config/initializers/inflections.rb add
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
inflect.irregular 'request_cache', 'request_caches'
end
You'll need to restart the server as it's in an initializer.
Have a look at config/initializers/inflections.rb. There should be some examples in the comments.
Something like this should do the trick:
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
inflect.singular 'request_caches' 'request_cache'
end
Be sure to restart the server after making changes to an initializer.
As I said,you can achieve it by changing config/initializers/inflections.rb like below
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections(:en) do |inflect|
inflect.irregular 'request_cache', 'request_caches'
end
Related
I have a need to define an inflection for the word 'chassis' where the same word defines both singular and plural and I am really struggling with this.
I thought I was there with the initialize/inflections.rb definition
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
# inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1en'
# inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
# inflect.irregular 'person', 'people'
# inflect.uncountable %w( fish sheep )
inflect.uncountable(/.*chassis.*/i)
end
Taking note of the example inflect.uncountable %w( fish sheep ) I tried to use inflect.uncountable %w( chassis ) when I first set up the scaffolding but that didn't work at all well as it didn't take into account leading parts in paths and caused problems with relationships and other tables like car_chassis and chassis_lookup.
Having looked at various solutions provided as answers to similar questions in Stack Overflow I eventually came up with inflect.uncountable(/.*chassis.*/i) Which seemed to take care of scaffolding but I'm having an issue with routes where <%= link_to "Chassis", admin_chassis_url%> gives me a no route for the show action error.
ActionController::RoutingError - No route matches {:action=>"show", :controller=>"admin/chassis"}
Which makes sense as I want the index action so I'm not passing an object to the path but Rails is obviously thinking I am requesting the show action
The other examples for regex's
# inflect.plural /^(ox)$/i, '\1en'
# inflect.singular /^(ox)en/i, '\1'
are just complete gobbledygook to me and learning regular expressions needs a lifetime of learning that I neither have the inclination or the sanity to get my head round and the rails documentation http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector/Inflections.html on inflections is quite frankly pathetic.
I obviously haven't got the inflection right. Can anyone give me a complete solution as to exactly how I should define an inflection for the word "chassis" for me and for others please as none of the previous answers I've found provide a complete and proper solution
Your inflection seem to be correct.
Check what 'rake routes' tell you. In my case it was smart enough to detect that plural and single form of chassis was the same, so it generated admin_chassis_index instead of just admin_chassis for the #index action. Probably, the same is true for you. This is what I did:
In config/routes.rb
namespace :admin do
resources :chassis
end
Running 'rake routes' gives (note the first path):
admin_chassis_index GET /admin/chassis(.:format) admin/chassis#index
POST /admin/chassis(.:format) admin/chassis#create
new_admin_chassis GET /admin/chassis/new(.:format) admin/chassis#new
edit_admin_chassis GET /admin/chassis/:id/edit(.:format) admin/chassis#edit
admin_chassis GET /admin/chassis/:id(.:format) admin/chassis#show
PUT /admin/chassis/:id(.:format) admin/chassis#update
DELETE /admin/chassis/:id(.:format) admin/chassis#destroy
So, for #index I'd need to call:
<%= link_to "Chassis", admin_chassis_index_url%>
I have some issues with a controller in my rails3 application that is called nas
My ruby app is connected to an existing DB so the table name has to stay as nas.
In my models, I have previously been able to do this:
set_table_name
But I don't know how to do this in my controller / routes.
Right now, my routes contains this:
resources :nas
And the output is:
new_na GET /nas/new(.:format) {:action=>"new", :controller=>"nas"}
edit_na GET /nas/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"nas"}
na GET /nas/:id(.:format) {:action=>"show", :controller=>"nas"}
PUT /nas/:id(.:format) {:action=>"update", :controller=>"nas"}
DELETE /nas/:id(.:format) {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"nas"}
As you can see, rails drops the 's'
How can I resolve this?
Thanks
It's pretty confusing because I have no idea what a "na" or "nas" is. From your question I have the idea that you always want to refer to it as "nas", both plural and singular.
If that's the case, then the answer is to put this in config/initializers/inflections.rb:
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.uncountable "nas"
end
This will also make your Nas model use the nas table by default, so no need for set_table_name.
However note that there is no reason to use Nas for your controllers if you don't want to! You can name them anything you like, as long as this is reflected in routes.rb and you use the correct model in your controller.
My ruby app is connected to an existing DB so the table name has to stay as nas.
Then why do your routes/controllers also have to be named nas? Once you fixed it on your model-level everything should be fine.
# model.rb
class WhateverILikeToCallMyModel
set_table_name "nas"
end
# controller.rb
class WaynesController << ApplicationController
# ...
def index
#items = WhateverILikeToCallMyModel.all
end
end
# routes.rb
resources :waynes
A guess, maybe you should try overriding the naming convention, because 'nas' is not plural? (assuming that's why the s dropped)
# Inflection rule
Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.irregular 'nas', 'nases'
end
in environment.rb
Edit: Instead of environment.rb use: config/initializers/inflections.rb (thanks Benoit Garret)
In your routes.rb, try,
match '/nas', :to => 'na'
This is just cosmetic but still driving me nuts. I've created a controller for my Address object and try to lay out routes for it. However, Rails seems to interpret the last 's' as plural and removes it from my paths, like this:
routes.rb:
resources :address
(note: this line is inside a namespace block called 'admin')
When I run rake routes I get this:
new_admin_addres
edit_admin_addres
... and so on. How do I get the extra 's' in my paths?
resources :addresses
which is the plural of address
Use the inflections to set address to be uncountable:
config/initializers/inflections.rb
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.uncountable %w( address )
end
This should now ignore any extra 's'. Not gramatically correct but should solve the issue.
I used nifty_scaffold to generate scaffold for a new model called "Fax"
In routes.rb, it creates a resource:
map.resources :faxes
But when I do a rake routes, I get this:
new_faxis GET
/faxes/new(.:format)
{:action=>"new", :controller=>"faxes"}
edit_faxis GET /faxes/:id/edit(.:format)
{:action=>"edit", :controller=>"faxes"
You need to add a custom inflection (pluralization to singularization and singularization to pluralization) to Rails. You can find a placeholder file for adding irregular inflections under config/initializers/ called inflection.rb. Paste in this snippet and things should start working as expected:
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.irregular 'fax', 'faxes'
end
You used to be able to do:
resources :paises, :singular => :pais
But I tried this in Rails and it didn't work. I want to have 'pais_path()' for show and 'paises_path()' for index.
thanks
open your config/initializers/inflections.rb file and add this
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.irregular 'pais', 'paises'
end
then your route resources :paises will work for you as expected