Resource name in flash messages is in camel case

[orenyk]

• What were you trying to do?
  • Set up a dashboard with a resource name that is two acronyms combined (e.g. FOO BAR), when both FOO and BAR are registered as acronyms with ActiveSupport (so that the path names work, e.g. app/models/foo_bar.rb). I expect that in flash messages that the name will be represented correctly (e.g. FOO BAR was successfully created.)
• What did you end up with (logs, or, even better, example apps are great!)?
  • The resource name in flash messages is the two acronyms combined without the space (e.g. FOOBAR was successfully created.). The root cause is here, where the ResourceResolver first converts the resource name to camel case, causing the space to be lost when it is subsequently converted to snake case in #resource_name.
• What versions are you running?
  • Rails
    • 6.0.3.4
  • administrate
    • 0.14.0

If anyone else is experiencing this, for the time being my workaround is to override translate_with_resource method in that specific resource's controller to hard-code the resource name with the space instead of relying on ResourceResolver.

Hope this helps!

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EDIT 2020-11-05 I don't believe this is exclusive to resources whose names begin with an acronym, as I'm also seeing it with non-acronym resources. I'm not sure why the following lines aren't working (I checked that the model_name.human methods work in the Rails console, so maybe there's an issue with resource_class?):

administrate/lib/administrate/resource_resolver.rb

Lines 23 to 25 in 8408423

	def resource_title
	resource_class.model_name.human
	end

[pablobm]

Thank you for filing this issue. In general the resolver is due an revision, and this is the sort of behaviour that we need to keep in mind.

[orenyk]

No problem! If I have some time I'll see if I can take a stab at a PR for at least this issue - it feels like it must be possible to leverage the same ActiveSupport mechanisms that allow acronyms to be registered to begin with. Thanks!

[orenyk]

Just as a follow-up, I was incorrect in my assumption that this was specific to acronyms; I'm seeing the same behavior with regular camel-cased resources (FooBar). I'll still try to take a look and investigate further.

[orenyk]

A little bit more info - I'm able to replicate this issue in the console and it's kinda weird:

irb(main):011:0> Administrate::ResourceResolver.new('admin/foo_bars').resource_title
=> "FooBar"
irb(main):012:0> Administrate::ResourceResolver.new('admin/foo_bars').resource_class.model_name.human
=> "Foo bar"

given that this is the resource_title method:

administrate/lib/administrate/resource_resolver.rb

Lines 23 to 25 in 8408423

	def resource_title
	resource_class.model_name.human
	end

[pablobm]

Good news! It looks like this is fixed in master. Not sure when, but I suspect it's due to #1633. Here's an illustration of 0.14 vs. master:

.

I'm going to close this as I think that's it, but feel free to comment or provide other info if you see an issue. For example, I guess the capitalisation is up for debate, but I think that should be customisable via i18n.