Mismatched routing in scaffold

[reagleton]

I used the nifty:scaffold to generate a scaffold for my pre-existing Media model.

The scaffold generated the following paths (amongst others) as part of the scaffold,

• edit_media_path
• new_media_path

This caused a NameError and when I checked rake routes, I discovered that the RESTful resource routing had defined them as,

• edit_medium_path
• new_medium_path

From my explorations, it seems that Rails routing creates these paths based on the classify method but that the Nifty scaffolding uses something else.

This may be a problem in Rails itself too because the form_for method does not correctly identify the appropriate paths either when using the short form (as defined in http://guides.rubyonrails.org/form_helpers.html#relying-on-record-identification), but I would appreciate it if other more knowledgeable people could confirm that this is indeed a real issue (and that I'm not just forgetting something)

I ended up not only having to modify the paths of the scaffold but also have to add conditional code to the forms to assign the appropriate path and method.

[reagleton]

Just as an update, I discovered that by editing config/initializers/inflections.rb and adding the line below seems to have fixed the issue.

inflect.irregular 'media', 'media'

I would still like to know if anyone thinks this should be highlighted as an issue for either Nifty or Rails?

[kinopyo]

I think it's a Rails's default behavior, as the media is treated as plural string.

'media'.singularize
=> "medium"

If you use rails generator, there would be a warning like this:

$ rails g scaffold media name
Plural version of the model detected, using singularized version. Override with --force-plural.

Modifying the inflections.rb sounds ok to me.

[leonelgalan]

I'm very late to the party, but what you want is to make "media" uncountable, and there is a method for that:

inflect.uncountable 'media'

So you don't repeat yourself with 'media', 'media'