On Mon, Oct 16, 2006, Ike wrote: > Is anyone aware of something which would MAP the table & field names that > someone might presently use in a db schema, to the rails requirements? For > example, if I have a table called associate, and a table called users, and > within associates, I have a field called userskey which contains the id in > users, I would like to be able to map what these table and field names ARE > to what they SHOULD be to comport with the rails naming conventions (i.e. > the tables should be associates, users and the field in question should be > users_id). ActiveRecord is very flexible, it just supposes "sensible" defaults. You can easily use it with legacy schema that don't fit the naming scheme. See, for example, ActiveRecord::Base#set_table_name, #set_primary_key, and friends. Ben