Rails scaffolding pluralisation is incorrect for "cafe"

ruby, ruby-on-rails, ruby-on-rails-3

Solution

You can create your own inflections.

Add this to your `config/initializers/inflections.rb`

    ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
        inflect.plural "cafe", "cafes"
    end

(Restart your server after making this change. This is not required for the scaffolding command itself but it will be required when you want to actually view/use the code)

Now when you run `rails g scaffold cafe` you'll get:

...
app/views/cafes
      create      app/views/cafes/index.html.erb
      create      app/views/cafes/edit.html.erb
      create      app/views/cafes/show.html.erb
      create      app/views/cafes/new.html.erb
      create      app/views/cafes/_form.html.erb
etc

This may help you: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector.html#method-i-inflections

Problem

I want to create a `cafe` and a `cave` controller. When I try to create my `cafe` using rails scaffolding, via the command rails g scaffold cafe name:string It is deriving the plural form of "cafe" as "caves", which means I can't make my `caves` controller since the name is already used. How can I make rails use the correct pluralisation?

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