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'Address' does not singularize properly

#6057

Using Rails 2.3.5 or Rails 3.0.3, testing in irb:

'Address'.singularize
=> "Addres"

However, the following works:

'Address'.pluralize.singularize
=> "Address"

Note that this also means that 'Address'.classify fails, while 'Address'.pluralize.classify will work properly.

Reported by Christopher Thompson · November 24th, 2010 @ 05:25 PM

State: wontfix
Milestone: none
Assigned to: nobody
Importance: Low

Activity

  1. Ryan Baldwin
    Ryan Baldwin

    See ticket 2399 - it looks like this is a well known issue for words ending in double s. A comment on the ticket explains how to address the problem.

    November 25th, 2010 @ 03:43 PM

  2. Andrés Mejía
    Andrés Mejía

    From ticket 2399:

    "Rails has a longstanding policy of not taking further inflector patches."

    May I ask what is the reason behind this?

    November 25th, 2010 @ 04:41 PM

  3. Aditya Sanghi
    Aditya Sanghi
    • State changed from new to wontfix
    • Importance changed from to Low

    Closing ticket as wontfix. Please fix inflections in your app's config/initializers/inflections.rb file

    November 27th, 2010 @ 09:25 AM

  4. Aditya Sanghi
    Aditya Sanghi

    @Andrés

    The reason behind this is that Rails core does not aim to become a definitive source of english inflections and source of grammatical debates. Rails provides users to manage their own inflections as they see fit in their app's initializers/inflections.rb file.

    November 27th, 2010 @ 09:27 AM

  5. bingbing
    bingbing

    March 26th, 2011 @ 01:25 AM