[dnautics]

It does bring cognitive overhead, when it's not explicit

[Karunamon]

But you’re writing an ActiveRecord migration. It’s explicit in the same way that echoing a string out is ‘puts’ instead of ‘print’ because this is Ruby and not Python.

[dnautics]

what if you're on a team where your responsibilities are divided and you only touch ActiveRecord sporadically?

What does ActiveRecord consider the plural of "fish"?

[sethrin]

You can change the inflections if you need to do so. ActiveRecord by default considers fish to be an uncountable noun, so the plural would be "fish".