Provide a way to load custom inflection rules fixes #747

buffalo/cmd/build/apkg.go

@@ -18,6 +18,27 @@ func (b *Builder) prepAPackage() error {
 	if err != nil {
 		return errors.WithStack(err)
 	}
+
+	infl := filepath.Join(b.Root, "inflections.json")
+	if _, err := os.Stat(infl); err == nil {
+		logrus.Debugf("preparing %s", infl)
+		// there's an inflection file we need to copy it over
+		fa, err := os.Open(infl)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.WithStack(err)
+		}
+		defer fa.Close()
+		fb, err := os.Create(filepath.Join(b.Root, "a", "inflections.json"))
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.WithStack(err)
+		}
+		defer fb.Close()
+		_, err = io.Copy(fb, fa)
+		if err != nil {
+			return errors.WithStack(err)
+		}
+	}
+
 	b.cleanups = append(b.cleanups, func() error {
 		return os.RemoveAll(a)
 	})

buffalo/cmd/build/templates/a.go.tmpl

@@ -1,21 +1,32 @@
 package a
 
 import (
-	"log"
-	"strings"
-	"github.com/markbates/pop"
+  "log"
+  "strings"
+  "github.com/markbates/pop"
+  "github.com/markbates/inflect"
+  "github.com/gobuffalo/packr"
 )
 
 func init() {
-	dropDatabaseYml()
+  dropDatabaseYml()
+
+  box := packr.NewBox("./")
+  if box.Has("inflections.json") {
+    r := strings.NewReader(box.String("inflections.json"))
+    err := inflect.LoadReader(r)
+    if err != nil {
+      log.Fatal(err)
+    }
+  }
 }
 
 func dropDatabaseYml() {
-	if DB_CONFIG != "" {
-		r := strings.NewReader(DB_CONFIG)
-		err := pop.LoadFrom(r)
-		if err != nil {
-			log.Fatal(err)
-		}
-	}
+  if DB_CONFIG != "" {
+    r := strings.NewReader(DB_CONFIG)
+    err := pop.LoadFrom(r)
+    if err != nil {
+      log.Fatal(err)
+    }
+  }
 }

generators/newapp/templates/inflections.json.tmpl

@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+{
+  "singular": "plural"
+}