Question

I’m implementing a distributed application, server with rails and mobile clients in objective c (iPhone). To enable internationalization, I use the rails plugin ‘globalize2’ by joshmh.

However, it turned out that this plugin does not translate attributes when calling to_xml or to_json on an ActiveRecord. Does anyone know of a workaround / patch? Do you have any ideas how to fix this, where to alter globalize2?

Using:
Rails 2.3.5
globalize2: commit from 2010-01-11

Answer 1

With Globalize2 (and with model_translations as well) translated attribute in a model is not a real attribute but is a method. Thus and so when you execute to_json method you can use :methods, as Joris suggested, but in a simpler way:

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base
  attr_accessible :title, :text
  translates :title, :text
end

class PostsController < ApplicationController
  def index   
    @posts = Post.all
    respond_to do |format|
        format.html
        format.json { render :json => { :posts => @posts.to_json(:only => :id, :methods => :title) }}
        format.js
    end
  end
end

Here I would like to receive only post id and title in json response. For additional information see to_json (Serialization) in Rails API.