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Perhaps Pluralize Means Something Other Than I Thought

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Besides the unfortunate use of a z where there really ought to be an s (yes, yes, I'm Australian), what does this word really mean?

pluralize v. tr.

  1. To make plural.
  2. Grammar. To express in the plural.

OK, that's pretty much what I thought it meant. So then riddle me this Batman:

simon$ ./script/console 
Loading development environment.
>> "country".pluralize
=> "countries"
>>

Good good. Just as expected. So, now let's try something else:

>> "countries".pluralize
=> "country"
>>

Huh??? Since when did country become the plural of countries?

Posted by Simon Harris on June 14, 2006 10:50 AM |

Comments

Stupid pluralizer. Even I know it should be "countriesies". ;-)

Posted by: Niclas Nilsson | June 14, 2006 05:55 PM

Hahaha...exactly! ;-)

Posted by: Simon Harris [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 14, 2006 05:57 PM

Haha, that's the same test I tried when my foreign keys were failing and the same baffled feeling. For the foreign_key_migrations plugin, I just changed it to not pluralize the table name used in :references. I don't know if there are any better options (perhaps singularizing then pluralizing?).

Posted by: obrie572 [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 16, 2006 01:59 AM

Hehe, yeah the funny thing is that singularize works as expected. Ie it doesn't turn country into countries, it leaves it as country. Anyway I've checked in a fix that calls singularize _before_ pluralize just in case. Pretty hacky but certainly the simplest thing that could possibly work.

HTH,

Simon

Posted by: Simon Harris [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 16, 2006 06:00 AM

Unfortunately, I have some more bad news...

"email_address".singularize => "email_addres"
"email_addres".pluralize => "email_addres"

Therefore...

"email_address".singularize.pluralize => "email_addres"

I think the problem here is the following:

(1) If :references is specified, then you should assume that the table name is already pluralized (safe assumption?) and use it as is in the query.
(2) If :references is not specified, pluralize the table name that is parsed on line 44.

What do you think?

Posted by: obrie572 [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 23, 2006 08:54 AM

Faur enough. I'll make that change ASAP.

Cheers,

Simon

Posted by: Simon Harris [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 23, 2006 09:06 AM

Ok, checked in a fix as suggested. Hope that works for you.

Cheers,

Simon

Posted by: Simon Harris [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 23, 2006 11:25 AM

Like a charm.

Hope I'm not being too much of a nuisance :)

Thanks for your help.

Posted by: obrie572 [TypeKey Profile Page] | June 23, 2006 12:02 PM

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