Anyone has some tips as how to translate model associations in Rails?
For example: I have a Person model, which can have many Phone. However, a Person needs to have at least one Phone. I'm not able to translate that validation. The best I could do was this:
validates_presence_of :phones, :message => "At least one phone is required."
And on my YAML, I replaced this line to omit the %{attribute}:
format: ! '%{message}'
This way only my message is displayed, and I avoid the un-translated field name to be displayed.
This is causing me a lot of headache, because some gems simply don't allow me to pass :message => "something describing the error", so I wanted to configure all the error messages through my YAML.
Also, with some models I'm able to translate their attributes, while with others I'm not. For example:
activerecord:
attributes:
additional_info:
account_manager: "Manager"
This works. I can see on my form "Manager". However, when this field has an error, Rails will display it as "Additional info account manager can't be blank".
I tried this:
activerecord:
errors:
models:
additional_info:
attributes:
account_manager: "Manager"
But no luck.
I did read the docs, but no clue on why it's happening.
Rails 3.2 has changed this behavior. The way I've posted before is deprecated.
Now, in order to translate associations, there is the need to add a slash (instead of nesting everything). So instead of this:
activerecord:
attributes:
person:
additional_info:
account_manager: "Manager"
The correct now is:
activerecord:
attributes:
person:
additional_info/account_manager: "Manager"
Also, I figured out that has_many associations are being translated differently from that. If you want to translate those, the following example may help:
activerecord:
attributes:
emails:
address: "E-mail field"
Instead of the model name, like I did above, you need to pass the association name, in this case emails.
Check this comment and pull request for more info:
https://github.com/rails/rails/commit/c19bd4f88ea5cf56b2bc8ac0b97f59c5c89dbff7#commitcomment-619858