Question

I am using the Globalize 3 gem as seen in Ryan Bates railscasts, and everything works fine. I need to know how to seed the data though. Currently, I created a table called monthly_post_translations with the following schema

schema.rb

create_table "monthly_post_translations", :force => true do |t|
  t.integer  "monthly_post_id"
  t.string   "locale"
  t.text     "body"
  t.datetime "created_at"
  t.datetime "updated_at"
end

I need to add seed data to this table, but it doesn’t have a model to interact with, so how do I do it?

Here is my currents seeds.rb that isn’t working

seeds.rb

# Monthly Posts
  MonthlyPost.delete_all

 monthlypost = MonthlyPost.create(:body => "Monthly Post Text")


#Monthly Posts Spanish Translation
monthlytranslation = MonthlyPostTranslation.create(:body => "Spanish Translation of monthly post text",
      :monthly_post_id => monthlypost.id,
      :locale => "es" )

But the monthly_post_translation table doesn’t have a model that I can interact with, so I get the error

uninitialized constant MonthlyPostTranslation

Any thoughts on how I can add this seed data properly?

Answer 1

As from documentation by typing translates :<attribute_name_here> you get generated model named MonthlyPost::Translation. So the answer will be: use instance collection to create or list all translations for entity:

monthlypost = MonthlyPost.create(:body => "Monthly Post Text")


#Monthly Posts Spanish Translation
monthlytranslation = monthlypost.translations.create(:body => "Spanish Translation of monthly post text",
      :locale => "es" )