Ruby on Rails - Define plural name of Model or Table

Question

I have this model

class Oferta < ActiveRecord::Base
  belongs_to :entidade
  has_many :candidatos, :through => :interesses
  has_many :interesses, foreign_key: "oferta_id", dependent: :destroy

basically I have this model and model Interesse and its plural its interesses but I think Rails is actually taking off the es at the end and leaving me with Interess. And now it gives me this error:

uninitialized constant Oferta::Interess

How can I define that the singular to interesses is interesse? and not interess

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1185035/how-do-i-override-rails-naming-conventions — Max Williams, Aug 28 '14 at 08:52

Serdar Dogruyol · Accepted Answer · 2014-08-28T09:05:12.823

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You can do something like this in your config/initializers/inflections.rb file.

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
 inflect.irregular 'interesse', 'interesses'
end

edited Aug 28 '14 at 09:05

answered Aug 28 '14 at 08:54

Serdar Dogruyol

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yeah. i saw the link above. But yeah that's pretty much what I did. thanks for the answer. I'll accept it as soon as I can – João Cunha Aug 28 '14 at 08:58
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Based on the above link, your custom inflections should reside in `config/initializers/inflections.rb` – Rahul Aug 28 '14 at 09:01
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Yeah putting it in inflections.rb is a best practice. Thanks @Rahul – Serdar Dogruyol Aug 28 '14 at 09:04

Ruby on Rails - Define plural name of Model or Table

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