Inflector.underscore() is not consistent with camelize()

Can we please have a patch with failing tests ? http://guides.rails.info/contrib... should be helpful.

Thanks !

Hmm, so I tried to write a failing test, but it appears this behavior is explicitly tested for (with incorrect behavior, IMO) in inflector_test_cases.rb:

  CamelToUnderscoreWithoutReverse = {
    "HTMLTidy"              => "html_tidy",
    "HTMLTidyGenerator"     => "html_tidy_generator",
    "FreeBSD"               => "free_bsd",
    "HTML"                  => "html",
  }

So it looks like there are 2 options: 1) Fix documentation to not claim that camelize() and underscore() are inverse functions (and warn that string.underscore.camelize != string) 2) Fix underscore() to break on (all) caps boundaries and provide a facility for making exceptions (probably via the Inflector#inflections method)

My personal feeling is that #1 Migrations will not run on a fresh database is ignoring the fundamental problem with the current behavior of underscore() -- there is no way to go from an underscored transformation back to the original camelized form.

Comments?

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