Globalize Accessors

Introduction

Generator of accessor methods for models using Globalize. Use globalize-accessors with a list of translated fields you want easily access to and extra :locales array listing locales for which you want the accessors to be generated.

This way a single form can be used to edit given model fields with all anticipated translations.

Note that globalize-accessors is currently only compatible with the globalize3 gem for Rails 3.x.

Installation

gem install globalize-accessors

Example

Definition like this:

class Product
  translates :title, :description
  globalize_accessors :locales => [:en, :pl], :attributes => [:title]
end

Gives you access to methods: ‘title_pl`, `title_en`, `title_pl=`, `title_en=` (and a similar set of description_* methods). They work seamlessly with Globalize (not even touching the “core” title, title= methods used by Globalize itself).

‘:locales` and `:attributes` are optional. Default values are:

:locales => I18n.available_locales
:attributes => translated_attribute_names

which means that skipping all options will generate you accessor method for all translated fields and available languages.

You can also get the accessor locales for a class with the ‘globalize_locales` method:

Product.globalize_locales # => [:en, :pl]

Always define accessors

If you wish to always define accessors and don’t want to call the globalize_accessors method in every class, you can extend ActiveRecord::Base with a module:

module TranslatesWithAccessors

  def translates(*params)
    options = params.extract_options!
    options.reverse_merge!(:globalize_accessors => true)
    accessors = options.delete(:globalize_accessors)
    super
    globalize_accessors if accessors
  end

end

Globalize Accessors

Introduction

Installation

Example

Always define accessors

Licence