#4311 Singular option unavailable in the new Routes - Ruby on Rails

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#4311 ✓wontfix

Singular option unavailable in the new Routes

Reported by Rizwan Reza | April 2nd, 2010 @ 12:20 PM | in 3.0.2

In Rails 2.3:

map.resources :teeth, :singular => "tooth"

Generates the following:

           GET    /teeth(.:format)          {:action=>"index", :controller=>"teeth"}
     teeth POST   /teeth(.:format)          {:action=>"create", :controller=>"teeth"}
 new_tooth GET    /teeth/new(.:format)      {:action=>"new", :controller=>"teeth"}
           GET    /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"show", :controller=>"teeth"}
           PUT    /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"update", :controller=>"teeth"}
     tooth DELETE /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"destroy", :controller=>"teeth"}
edit_tooth GET    /teeth/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :controller=>"teeth"}

In Rails 3, passing :singular as an option generates the following:

           GET    /teeth(.:format)          {:action=>"index", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
    teeths POST   /teeth(.:format)          {:action=>"create", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
 new_teeth GET    /teeth/new(.:format)      {:action=>"new", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
           GET    /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"show", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
           PUT    /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"update", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
     teeth DELETE /teeth/:id(.:format)      {:action=>"destroy", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}
edit_teeth GET    /teeth/:id/edit(.:format) {:action=>"edit", :singular=>"tooth", :controller=>"teeths"}

Also, I checked if there's a singular method, but that returns a NoMethodError. Is this something we would like to support with the new DSL?

Comments and changes to this ticket

Andrew White April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:21 AM
I saw it was missing the other day and thought about adding a patch, but I got the impression that the preferred method was to add a custom inflection.

I'll add a patch this evening and leave it up to core to decide what to do with it.
DHH April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:02 PM
I'm not sure I understand the value of this. It looks like all this does is change the name of the named route. What's the purpose here?
Rizwan Reza April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:05 PM
It fixes it when the singular-plural algorithm fails. It's your call. :)
DHH April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:06 PM
Ahh, okay. Well, you really should fix that in config/initializers/inflections.rb. Otherwise it's not going to be consistent in the rest of your app. I don't think we need it here unless there are other arguments for it.
Rizwan Reza April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:08 PM
Alright, thanks!
Rizwan Reza April 3rd, 2010 @ 07:12 PM
- State changed from “open” to “wontfix”
Jeremy Kemper October 15th, 2010 @ 11:01 PM
- Milestone set to “3.0.2”
- Importance changed from “” to “Medium”
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