rails singular resource still plural?

Question

I have a search route which I would like to make singular but when I specify a singular route it still makes plural controller routes, is this how it's supposed to be?

resource :search 

Gives me

 search POST        /search(.:format)        {:action=>"create", :controller=>"searches"}  new_search  GET    /search/new(.:format)    {:action=>"new", :controller=>"searches"}  edit_search GET    /search/edit(.:format)   {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"searches"}              GET    /search(.:format)        {:action=>"show", :controller=>"searches"}              PUT    /search(.:format)        {:action=>"update", :controller=>"searches"}              DELETE /search(.:format)        {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"searches"} 

Plural controller "searches"

I only have one route really... to create a search:

So I did: match "search" => "search#create"

I'm just wondering for the future if I'm still supposed to keep the controller plural? Rails 3.0.9

Answer 1

Yes, that's how it's supposed to be. Quote from the Rails Guide on Routing:

Because you might want to use the same controller for a singular route (/account) and a plural route (/accounts/45), singular resources map to plural controllers.

http://edgeguides.rubyonrails.org/routing.html#singular-resources

Answer 2

You could fix this by setting the plural of "search" to be uncountable so in config/initializers/inflections.rb

ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|    inflect.uncountable %w( search ) end 

This should now allow search to only be used