From: Max Muermann <ruby@...>
Date: 2006-11-02T07:47:48+09:00
Subject: Re: still more relentless non-repetition

>
> I don't like all the upcasing and downcasing. it's not as elegant as
> it could be.
>
> what I do like about it is that it generates a lot of HTML without
> very much Ruby at all. that's pretty good bang for the buck. in one
> short method and two quick partials, you have all the code necessary
> to generate four different types of model-specific search pages, plus
> links for searching different models with the same query.
>
> obviously the array of words could be an instance var, and could be
> aribtrarily large, but only if I fixed the upcasing and downcasing.
>
> --
> Giles Bowkett
> http://www.gilesgoatboy.org
>

Try:

"Track".tableize => 'tracks'
'tracks'.classify => Track

and

"MyCategory".tableize => "my_categories"
"my_categories".classify => "MyCategory"

Cheers,
Max