The Ruby on Rails way for Model naming

Following a comment (that was from when the blog had comments) from mathie (Graeme Mathieson) on my last post on Rails-CMDB about the the Rails way for naming of columns within Models. I’m planning on doing the following column rename for the next release of Rails-CMDB:

rename_column :assets, :delivery_date, :delivered_on
rename_column :assets, :removal_date, :removed_on

rename_column :locations, :start_date, :started_on
rename_column :locations, :end_date, :ended_on

rename_column :purchase_orders, :order_date, :ordered_on

rename_column :vendors, :last_order_date, :stopped_ordering_on

So the question for the Rails coders out there - does this seem correct ? There’s also a single table who’s primary field is not called name, so I guess to do it in the Rails way it should be changed as well.

I’ve also created about 90 unit test stubs and now just comes the hard part of coding the tests ;-)