Translatable Attributes

Works with I18n to allow you to magically translate an attribute of an object.

Including this module into your model will allow you to add arbitrary attributes whose values are persisted in multiple languages in the database.

For example, supposing you have an online shop, and you need to store the description of products in English and German. First, you should ensure that I18n.available_locales returns [:en, :de] (at least), for this example. Then you can do this:

class Product
  include TranslatableAttributes
  translatable_attribute_accessor :description
end

product = Product.create(
  :description_en => "English",
  :description_de => "Kein Englisch!"
)

The descriptions will be persisted in the translations table (or whatever your I18n::Backend::ActiveRecord is using - see that gem for more info), with the key 'products.123.description'.

Installation

gem install translatable_attributes

or in a Rails projects, add this to your Gemfile

gem 'translatable_attributes'

It pulls in its dependencies itself.

Caveats

This is a first version, so it may have bugs, and could certainly be improved. Please feel free to do so!

Authors

JJ Buckley [email protected]

Copyright

Released under a GPL - no responsibility, etc.