Question

I am just localizing a Rails app for the first time and I wonder if there’s a shorter way to say this:

flash[:success] = t('.views.person.flash_messages.person_was_successfully_updated')

This is an excerpt of my de.yml file:

de: 
  views:
    person:
      flash_messages:
        person_was_successfully_updated: "Person aktualisiert."

I would looove to say something like this:

flash[:success] = t('person_was_successfully_updated')

But Rails is giving me an error, when I try to do so.

I don’t understand why because person_was_successfully_updated is absolutely unique in my .yml file and I don’t see the need for typing in the entire path every time. This is not very DRY either.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

I would looove to say something like this

If you want to call person_was_successfully_updated directly then you should put that in first level. i.e., under de:..

But Rails is giving me an error, when I try to do so.

Yes it will definitely give error because there is no person_was_successfully_updated in root level.

For more info. http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html