title: Connect Rails Application To Existing Database
body: <p>I have a client asking me to help them build a ruby application to interface with a database that was created for a different application that runs on php. The problem is that since the database was not scaffolded with rails, it does not follow any of the rails conventions. For example, there is a table called <code>form</code></p>
  
  <p>If I run the command <code>rails generate model form</code> then rails will infer the table name is form<strong>s</strong></p>
  
  <p>further more I don't want ruby to perform any migrations since the data is already there in the state that I want it. Is there any good way of going about this?</p>