- This gem is a very simple monkey patch into the ActiveRecord class.
- It gives you a locale-aware model attribute, provided you appropriately named your columns in db.
- The convention for the field naming is: [field name] + '_' + [locale], e.g. 'description_en'.
- Only supports 2 locales (:fr and :en) for now.
Suppose you want a locale-aware description
field for your ActiveRecord model Item
. With this:
class Item < ActiveRecord::Base
# that implies you have those 2 database fields in your items table:
# 'description_fr' and 'description_en'
has_multilingual_attributes :description
end
You'll get a virtual attribute description
which content will vary according to the current locale:
> item = Item.new :description_fr => 'desc fr', :description_en => 'desc en'
=> #<Item id: nil, description_fr: "desc fr", description_en: "desc en">
> I18n.locale = :fr
=> :fr
> item.description
=> "desc fr"
> I18n.locale = :en
=> :en
> item.description
=> "desc en"
- Read supported locales from config.