How does the model "magic" happen

[willowlight]

I have a DB table named Categories and my model is named Category. Everything works correctly, but how does the Model know that the correct table to add data to is Categories ?

It made sense to me when I have a table called users and the model is User as it's just the plural version, but I don't get how it can figure out the Categories scenario.

This brings me to my next question, if needed, can you manually specify which table the Model is associated with?

[willowlight]

Looking at the docs I found this:

class Comment < Sequel::Model(:something)

I assume if I had to explicitly tell which table I'd do class Category < Sequel::Model(:categories)

And why it works without explicitly specifying must be because Sequel tries to figure out based on the Model name?

[janko]

Sequel is able to pluralize the model name, and assumes that's how the table name is called. Try to find "inflector" or "inflections" module in the source code.