Ruby on Rails | Typing Convention

Working with databases

• Model class name is singular, starts with uppercase. e.g. class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
• Model file name is singular, all lowercase. e.g. article.rb
• Table name is plural of model name, all lowercase e.g. articles

Working with Buttons and Controllers

• Controller class name is plural and written in CamelCase e.g. class ArticlesController
• Controller file name is also plural but separated by "_" e.g articles_controller.rb