Handle Uncountable Words in Rails Inflections - Andy Croll

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Use inflect.uncountable to stop Rails pluralising words like staff, metadata, and feedback.Some English words don’t have a separate plural form. “Staff” is staff, “metadata” is metadata, “feedback” is feedback. Rails doesn’t always know this—it will happily generate a staffs table or a metadatas route if you let it.

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