SimpleModelTranslations

Yet another implementation of ActiveRecord translations. Created for zn.ua, because globalize3 was too uncomfortable to use. It borrows some things from globalize3 and puret.

Basic Usage

For example, you are dealing with a website for some magazine, and you want your articles to be translated. So, you’ll need the following models to achieve this behaviour (warning: ArticleTranslation should be defined before Article, or Rails should be able to autoload it):

class ArticleTranslation < ActiveRecord::Base
  translation_for :article
end

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  translates :name, :content
end

or, if you are not going to add some additional behavior to translation class (for example, validations), you can use translation class, created for you by default:

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
  translates :name, :content
end

ArticleTranslation will be generated automagically :)

Also, you’ll need a migration:

create_table(:article_translations) do |t|
  t.references :article
  t.string :locale

  t.string :name
  t.text :content
end
add_index :article_translations, [:article_id, :locale], :unique => true

Now you are able to translate values for the attributes :title and :description per locale:

I18n.locale = :en
article = Article.new(:name => 'Translations are so simple!')
I18n.locale = :uk
article.name = 'Hello, from Ukraine!'

I18n.locale = :en
article.name #=> 'Translations are so simple!'
I18n.locale = :uk
article.name #=> 'Hello, from Ukraine!'

Additional features can be discovered by searching the code and specs. Documentation is not available yet. I hope, it’ll be done when releasing zn.ua. :)

Nested attributes

Usually, when creating bootstrap data (e.g. seeds.rb) you want to pass all translations in one statement. You can do it using Rails’ nested attributes, and we propose a very convenient option for that:

class Category < ActiveRecord::Base
  translates :name, :attributes => true
end

Usage:

Category.create!(:translations_attributes => [
    { :locale => :en, :name => 'Science' },
    { :locale => :ru, :name => 'Наука' }
  ])

Fetching records with selected translations

If you want (and you probably do want) to fetch only records with specified translation, you can do it now:

Article.with_translation(:ru)

This code returns an ActiveRecord::Relation object, so you can chain your query furthermore.

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

Fork the project.
Make your feature addition or bug fix.
Add tests for it. This is important so I don’t break it in a future version unintentionally.
Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.

SimpleModelTranslations

Basic Usage

Nested attributes

Fetching records with selected translations

Note on Patches/Pull Requests

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