ActsAsSimpleTranslatable

Adds translation table, and helpers to work with model translations.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'acts_as_simple_translatable'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install acts_as_simple_translatable

This will create a translations table:

$ rails generate acts_as_simple_translatable:install

To add translation to your model just add to your model:

acts_as_simple_translatable_on :name, :description

Add to application.rb:

I18n.avaliable_locales = ['en', 'de']

m = Model.create(name: 'name', descritpion: 'description' )
m.translations.create(locale: 'de', tanslatable_field: 'name', content: 'name_in_de')

I18n.locale = 'de'
m.name                    #=> 'name_in_de'
m.description             #=> 'description'

Default locale content will be saved in original field in table (e.g. in table Model, attribute name) while for other locales content will be saved in translations table.

You also have the access to list of translatable fields:

Model.locale_fields       #=> [:name, :description]

You can access to original field by prepending _original to attribute name:

description_original

Also, when you accessing to attribute and there is no translation for it, you can define custom message or default will be returned.

my_model.name     # => 'name' <-- default message

my_model.name('You need translate this')    # => 'You need translate this' <-- custom message

1. Fork it ( http://github.com/infinum/acts_as_simple_translatable/fork )
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create new Pull Request