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[eggnog]$ time ./dispatch.fcgi
real    2m48.176s
user    0m2.090s
sys     0m0.550s

And they want me to renew my hosting tomorrow.

I was working with a database that had its own rules for pluralization and I wrote a quick hack to try to get ActiveRecord to play nice with their naming conventions. It still crashes and burns a lot, but it’s a work in progress.

module Inflector
  def pluralize(word)
    if (  word[-1..-1].downcase == 's' ||
          word[-1..-2].downcase == 'sh' ||
          word[-1..-2].downcase == 'ch' ||
          word[-1..-1].downcase == 'x'        
       )
      word << 'es'
    elsif word[-1..-1].downcase == 'y'
      if ['a', 'e', 'i', 'o', 'u'].include? word[-2..-2]
        word << 's'
      else
        word = word[0..word.length-2] << 'ies'
      end
    else
      word << 's'
    end
  end

  def foreign_key(class_name, separate_class_name_and_id_with_underscore = true)
    class_name
  end
end

class ActiveRecord::Base
  class << self
    def reset_primary_key #:nodoc:
      key = "#{base_class.name}ID"
      set_primary_key(key)
      key
    end

    private
    def undecorated_table_name(class_name = base_class.name)
      table_name = Inflector.pluralize(class_name)
      puts table_name
      table_name
    end
  end
end

It still needs a lot of work, but I think it will be pretty cool to get active record to make correct assumptions about table names and keys without explicitly defining them.

So I finally caved and made a blog. I found myself saving code snippets of cool things that I’d picked up in text files on whatever machine I happened to be working on. This brought on a few problems.

First, I am extremely unorganized, and would forget about (and soon after lose forever) the text file containing whatever gem of knowledge I had come across.

Second, a text file saved at work doesn’t help me much at home.

Third (theoretically) someone else out there might have some bizzare desire to read the contents of whatever text file I was in the process of losing.

Thus, this blog was born. I doubt anyone will ever read this, but if it does somehow end up serving a greater good than my personal online sticky note, all the better. Enjoy.