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I'm curious, where does pluralization of table names bring runtime overhead? AFAIK, they are stored in the model and not generated every time they are needed.

• dnautics 8y ago
  It does bring cognitive overhead, when it's not explicit
  • Karunamon 8y ago
    But you’re writing an ActiveRecord migration. It’s explicit in the same way that echoing a string out is ‘puts’ instead of ‘print’ because this is Ruby and not Python.
    • dnautics 8y ago
      what if you're on a team where your responsibilities are divided and you only touch ActiveRecord sporadically? What does ActiveRecord consider the plural of "fish"?
      • sethrin 8y ago
        You can change the inflections if you need to do so. ActiveRecord by default considers fish to be an uncountable noun, so the plural would be "fish".
• lowercased 8y ago
  apparently, my bad. my earlier reading of rails from years ago was that this was runtime inflection, not at generation time. it still, imo, adds some cognitive overhead, and other orms I've used (grails/gorm, for example), don't try to pluralize. you can pluralize by hand if you want to, but the default is just to name a table whatever the class name is.