Can this be translated?

[Redd Vinylene]

I got this in my person.rb:

def him_or_her
h = "him" if gender == "male"
h = "her" if gender == "female"
h
end

Is it possible to translate "him" and "her"?

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[Mickael Faivre-Macon]

def him_or_her
if gender == "male"
h = I18n.t(:him)
else
h = I18n.t(:her)
end
h
end

Mickael Faivre-Maçon

[Iain Hecker]

Hi Redd,

yes

Iain

PS: Just add I18n.t(h) at the last line

[Redd Vinylene]

Thank y'all so much!

I got the following in applications_helper.rb so I can say t instead of I18n.t:

def t(*args)
translate(*args)
end

How do I make this work for my models as well? Would an "extend
ApplicationsHelper" to person.rb be a wise choice? I've heard some
people don't really like that.

Cheers!

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[Iain Hecker]

Maybe using the application helper is not a good idea, because it has
methods specific to views, but you can make your own module and mix it
in.

module TranslateForModels
def t(*args); I18n.t(*args); end
end
ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, TranslateForModels

The proper place would be in the lib directory.

Iain

[Redd Vinylene]

Once again, thank you so much!

Works perfectly!

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[Redd Vinylene]

Actually, no it doesn't. I still have to do I18n.t instead of t in
person.rb, despite TranslateForModels in lib/i18n.rb.

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[Karel Minarik]

Beware of Rails autoloading conventions. Your file should have a
`translate_for_models.rb` name,

Karel

On Jan 2, 10:41 am, "Redd Vinylene" <reddvinyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Actually, no it doesn't. I still have to do I18n.t instead of t in
> person.rb, despite TranslateForModels in lib/i18n.rb.
>
>
>
> On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Redd Vinylene <reddvinyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Once again, thank you so much!
>
> > Works perfectly!
>

> > On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:44 PM, Iain Hecker <i...@iain.nl> wrote:
>
> >> Maybe using the application helper is not a good idea, because it has
> >> methods specific to views, but you can make your own module and mix it
> >> in.
>
> >> module TranslateForModels
> >>  def t(*args); I18n.t(*args); end
> >> end
> >> ActiveRecord::Base.send :include, TranslateForModels
>
> >> The proper place would be in the lib directory.
>
> >> Iain
>

> >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 15:56, Redd Vinylene <reddvinyl...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >>> Thank y'all so much!
>
> >>> I got the following in applications_helper.rb so I can say t instead of I18n.t:
>
> >>> def t(*args)
> >>>  translate(*args)
> >>> end
>
> >>> How do I make this work for my models as well? Would an "extend
> >>> ApplicationsHelper" to person.rb be a wise choice? I've heard some
> >>> people don't really like that.
>
> >>> Cheers!
>

> >>> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:44 PM, Iain Hecker <i...@iain.nl> wrote:
>
> >>>> Hi Redd,
>
> >>>> yes
>
> >>>> Iain
>
> >>>> PS: Just add I18n.t(h) at the last line
>

[Yaroslav Markin]

Hey,

just added a patch for t/l aliases inclusion in AR models, +1 if you like:

http://rails.lighthouseapp.com/projects/8994-ruby-on-rails/tickets/1689-add-i18n-shortcuts-to-ar-models

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[Andreas Neuhaus]

Yes it's possible, but if you plan to have more translations in
future, you might want to prevent to translate single words.
Localization is more than just translating words to a different
language. In another language, it might be not as easy as switching
"him" and "her". In the long term, you usually play better by
translating whole sentences (where their meanings can be translated to
another language).

I wrote about it in my blog a few weeks ago.
http://zargony.com/2008/12/01/how-to-use-i18n-string-interpolation

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http://zargony.com/

[Redd Vinylene]

Thank you for your reply Andreas. Did you by any chance catch Iain's
earlier replies though? He pretty much nailed it, except I'm unable to
use just t as oppose to I18n.t, that's all. Much obliged!

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