Convention on model names in ruby on rails

Question

I was doing my ER diagram for a rails application I'm about to begin with and there I have an entity called Class News so I'd have a model ClassNew but I don't know if I will have problems in the future with the New part or what would be the right way to do this o how should I call the model? since the right thing would be ClassNews and the table should be class_news...

What's the best thing to do when working with News at the time of creating models for ActiveRecord in Ruby on Rails.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Why would the model be called "ClassNew" ? "News" is an uncountable noun. If RAILS doesn't already have "News" marked as uncountable, you can change the rules.

• Mr_Nizzle: So, before running the migrations and generating the model, I could do rails g model class_news title description and AR will generate ClassNews model using class_news table and I'll be able to use without a problem if its marked as uncountable in Rails?
• kevin cline: @Mr_Nizzle: If you are currently getting "ClassNew" from "class_news", instead of "ClassNews", then changing the rules to mark "News" as uncountable (like "fish") should fix that problem.
• Mr_Nizzle: Thanks, ran the model generator with ClassNews and it generated the model ClassNews and the migration creates the table class_news and it works fine in the application like: ClassNews.new and ClassNew.all, seems like it won't mean any trouble.