From: Alexandre Brillant <public2@...>
Date: 2008-08-15T23:37:12+09:00
Subject: Re: About RAILS

Tx philip, I will go to the google forum.

Well for the |p| after this is correct from the syntax point of view,

create_table( ... ) { |p|

or

create_table( ... ) {
|p|

are both ok, I prefer the second one


"Phlip" <phlip2005@gmail.com> a �crit dans le message de news: 
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> Alexandre Brillant wrote:
>
>> I don't understand one point with Ruby on Rails :
>
> The best place to discuss RoR is here:
>
>   http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk/
>
> This forum is only qualified to discuss Ruby, the language behind Rails, 
> and many other awesome programs.
>
>> create_table( :personnes ) {
>>
>> |p|
>
> I don't know what editor you use, but 'script/generate model' should have 
> created better syntax there. The |p| should be up near the {, as a style 
> thing. And your editor might have inserted linefeeds when you tried to 
> paste your source here.
>
> I would scratch this project and use 'script/generate model' to redo the 
> files.
>
>> And it works, but I don't understand how Rails can know that the classe 
>> Personne should be mapped to the
>>
>> personnes table. Where it is stored ?
>
> Google for "convention over configuration". Then pity the programmers, 
> using other platforms, who must edit ~1 Kb of lines of configuration 
> files, just to stitch things together!
>
> By default, ActiveRecord will read the name of your class, Personne, 
> lower-case it, personne, and pluralize it: personnes. Then it looks for 
> that table.
>
> It uses a class called Inflector to do this.
>
> However, I suspect you are lucky to use a language that pluralizes with an 
> s. I don't think the Inflector is smart enough to divine your language and 
> pluralize with its conventions - if any! Maybe someone on the RoR forum 
> knows how to set your locale to French, to handle French idioms 
> correctly...
>
> -- 
>   Phlip