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ersamy
ersamy

Reputation: 451

How to create a translatable successful notice?

I am trying to create a translatable successful notice. This notice would be called by a successful call of the create and update actions.

This is what I have so far:

#config/locales/en.yml
activerecord:
  models:
    place: "Place"
  successful:
    messages:
      created: "%{model} was successfully created."
      updated: "%{model} was successfully updated."

#app/controllers/places_controller.rb
def create
  ...
  format.html { redirect_to(@place, :notice => "#{t 'activerecord.successful.messages.created'}") }

The problem is that this shows the message: "%{model} was successfully created.". How do I get it to say: "Place was successfully created."?

Upvotes: 3

Views: 3210

Answers (2)

Don Giulio
Don Giulio

Reputation: 3304

You can simply write: 

format.html do
  redirect_to(
    @place, 
    notice: t('activerecord.successful.messages.created', model: :place
  )
end

(Note that you are writing this in the places_controller.rb file, so you know it will be a place being saved, no need for @place.class.model_name.human wordy stuff.)

This will tell the i18n the translation of which model to use, now you just need to localize the model names, which is very simple and done by adding the model section within the activerecord one, so your locale yaml files will look like: 

activerecord:
    successful:
      messages:
        created: 
          enqueued: "La creazione del %{model} è stata messa in coda con successo"
    error_header_message: 
      one: Un errore ha proibito il salvataggio di questo %{model}
      other: "%{count} errori hanno proibito il salvataggio di questo %{model}"
    models: 
      article: articolo
    attributes:
      article: 
        user_id: Autore
        title: Titolo
        published: Pubblicato
        text: Testo

Similarly, as you can see in the example, you can specify also attribute names which is going to be useful in forms, error validations and other places.

Upvotes: 0

Chris Bailey
Chris Bailey

Reputation: 4136

You need to use i18n's interpolation functions (see http://guides.rubyonrails.org/i18n.html#interpolation) do do something like

t('activerecord.successful.messages.created', :model => @my_newly_saved_object.class.model_name.human)

where model_name returns the name of the class of the created object (see http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/ActiveModel/Name.html). calling human on this object returns the i18n translation of the model name (from the scope activerecord.models.{model_name})

Upvotes: 10

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