rails/rails — pull request #6820 by davidcelis (2012-06-21 22:52:22+00:00)
Title: Remove the default "f" => "ve" plural inflection.

This patch is to remove a default from ActiveSupport's inflections. The
current default of words ending in "fe" to be pluralized as "ves" is
strange in that this is a grammatical exception rather than the rule.
The conversion of "f" to "ve" in pluralization is not as common as the
case of simply adding the "s" and, when the exception does occur, should
we really care? Aside from words like "half" (which was covered in the same rule
but with a different regex case), or the words "life" (and perhaps "knife" for Chef
users), I am unsure as to why people would need to pluralize these words.
When is the last time you saw `has_many :wives`, for instance?

Signed-off-by: David Celis