Default to plural table name in Rails Generator if ActiveRecord is not...

Default to plural table name in Rails Generator if ActiveRecord is not present.  Closes #8963 [evan]

git-svn-id: http://svn-commit.rubyonrails.org/rails/trunk@7183 5ecf4fe2-1ee6-0310-87b1-e25e094e27de

railties/CHANGELOG

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+* Default to plural table name in Rails Generator if ActiveRecord is not present.  Closes #8963 [evan]
+
 * Added rake routes for listing all the defined routes in the system #8795 [josh]
 
 * db:create creates the database for the current environment if it's on localhost. db:create:all creates local databases for all environments.  #8783 [matt]

railties/lib/rails_generator/base.rb

@@ -228,7 +228,7 @@ def assign_names!(name)
           @name = name
           base_name, @class_path, @file_path, @class_nesting, @class_nesting_depth = extract_modules(@name)
           @class_name_without_nesting, @singular_name, @plural_name = inflect_names(base_name)
-          @table_name = ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names ? plural_name : singular_name
+          @table_name = (!defined?(ActiveRecord::Base) || ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names) ? plural_name : singular_name
           if @class_nesting.empty?
             @class_name = @class_name_without_nesting
           else