Rails Model and Controller

Question

I generated a controller called Search. later I built a model called search as well. When i try to make a search i get an error that says there is no controller called searches, so it looks like it the model interacts with the plural of itself by default. how do i change this behaviour

Answer 1

Sounds like you are quite new to rails. The best advice here is almost certainly "don't" Rails uses a lot of conventions to avoid having to configure everything, and this is one of them. So I would recommend changing the name of your controller rather than trying to make rails do something out of the ordinary

for more detail see this stackoverflow question

Answer 2

Just rename the controller class from 'SearchController' to 'SearchesController'. Also rename the file in apps/controllers to from search_controller.rb to searches_controller.rb .

Answer 3

When you have generated controller and model separately, you also generated additional files like test files, views and so on. So potentially you will have big headache on this.

I would recommend to use rails destroy command in these steps:

Commit your current project (later you can recover your content from it)

Run this commands:

rails destroy model Search
rails destroy controller Search

Restore your controller and model from previous commit.