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Jasper Kennis
Jasper Kennis

Reputation: 3062

Why are my formtastic translations not working

Translations seem to be my greatest enemy:( I have a nice Formtastic form, and a yaml translation file. I've set the translation in the config/application.rb like this:

config.i18n.available_locales = :nl
config.i18n.default_locale = :nl

and a before_filter method in application_controller.rb like this:

before_filter :set_locale

def set_locale
  session[:locale] = params[:locale] unless params[:locale].nil?
  I18n.locale = session[:locale] || I18n.default_locale
end

My form looks like this (it's written in haml):

= semantic_form_for Ad.new do |f|       
  .holder
    = f.inputs do
      = f.input :name

    = f.inputs do
      = f.input :reason

and finaly my nl.yml looks like this:

nl:
  formtastic:
    titles:
      ads:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    labels:
      ads:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    hints:
      ads:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    placeholders:
      ads:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"

As you can see I've added the same translation to all these keys Formtastic provides but none show up, the label remains Reason and there is no placeholder text. For as far as I can tell I've done exactly what the Formtastic readme prescribes. I'm using formtastic (2.2.1) with rails (3.2.8). If I add activerecord translations to the nl.yml the label does get translated. Why don't the formtastic translations work?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 696

Answers (2)

Jasper Kennis
Jasper Kennis

Reputation: 3062

This is a little lame, but the problem turned out to be in the ads part. I shouldn't have pluralized ad. This works fine:

nl:
  formtastic:
    titles:
      ad: // Mind the difference here: no 's'
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    labels:
      ad:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    hints:
      ad:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
    placeholders:
      ad:
        reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"

Upvotes: 1

jethroo
jethroo

Reputation: 2124

i'm not quite sure but have you tried something like:

nl:
  formtastic:
    ads:
      reason: "Waarom verkoop je het?"
...

since the model class is Ad here and i18n should somehow reflect the model structur?

Upvotes: 1

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