Question

For example i have project model and 5 available locales. User should be able to create project localized to those 5 locales?
What is the best way to add this kind of feature, is there some rails way for this?
I understand that i should store all those translations in database, but something like text_en, text_pt, text_es, text_fr, text_it for each field is scares me.
Can you give me an advice? Thanks!

UPD. Seems like i find nice tool for the job https://github.com/svenfuchs/globalize3 🙂

Answer 1

You may want to use a serialized attribute for locale-dependent data, and define a title (or anything) as a hash:

class Project
  serialize :title, Hash
...

p.title[:pt] = "title in pt"

The problem will be that you will not be able to do SQL search for the textual values. If you want to search projects by names, just extract the locale-dependent attributes to another table:

class Project
  has_many :titles
end

class Title
  belongs_to :project
  belongs_to :locale # or just put there a string attribute
end