How can I force the singular table name on Rails scaffold generator?

Question

I'm working with a legacy database and need to create some CRUD's. How can I use the scaffold generator and tell him the exact name of the table avoiding the pluralize process??

Also the tables are in spanish.

Answer 1

I think you want

ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false

Found this here:

http://justinram.wordpress.com/2006/04/04/pluralize-table-names-no-thanks/

http://guides.rubyonrails.org/3_1_release_notes.html

Answer 2

You can just use ActiveRecord::Base.table_name= method to manually set the table name.

So, in your model you can do:

class OrderDetail < ActiveRecord::Base
  self.table_name = 'order_detail'
end