Change plural form of generated model in rails?

Question

I'm using this command:

rails generate model DayOfMonth day:integer

Rails generated the model "DayOfMonth" and the table "day_of_months".

I want it to create the table "days_of_month" instead.

I know this has something to do with the Inflector class and the inflector.rb in initializers folder.

But I don't understand how to get this to work.

I'm using Rails 3.

Could someone help me out here or point me to a tutorial for this?

Thanks

Answer 1

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
 inflect.irregular 'day of month', 'days of month'
end

Read: http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveSupport/Inflector.html

Answer 2

You could just edit the migration and then add

Rails 3.2+ / 4+

class DayOfMonth < ActiveRecord::Base
   self.table_name = "days_of_month"
end

Rails 3

class DayOfMonth < ActiveRecord::Base
  set_table_name "days_of_month"
end

Answer 3

You have to say what's the plural form of 'day of month' in an initializer 'inflections.rb':

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
     inflect.irregular 'day of month', 'days of month'
     inflect.irregular 'day_of_month', 'days_of_month'
end

That worked for me. Although, I'm still getting errors when defining associations to that model:

has_many :days_of_month