Rails - Mar 2006 - Multilingual Validation Messages

Hi all,

I have a mutilingual app and want to customize the validation error  
messasges. I cannot override them as I need them in more than one  
language, so I have done the following:

validates_presence_of :some_attr, :message => _(''should not be
blank'')

I am using gettext to translate the message.

This works in development mode, but not in production, even after a  
server restart and the killing of all fcgi processes, i.e. a  
completely fresh server. Why is that so and how can I remedy tha  
situation?

Many thanks in advance,
- Nicky

Hi,

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 16:49:55 +0100
Nickolay Kolev <nmkolev@uni-bonn.de> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I have a mutilingual app and want to customize the validation error  
> messasges. I cannot override them as I need them in more than one  
> language, so I have done the following:
> 
> validates_presence_of :some_attr, :message => _(''should not be
blank'')
> 
> I am using gettext to translate the message.
> 
> This works in development mode, but not in production, even after a  
> server restart and the killing of all fcgi processes, i.e. a  
> completely fresh server. Why is that so and how can I remedy tha  
> situation?
This was a bug of Ruby-GetText-Package.
# I misunderstood the difference between development and 
# production mode.

I''ve fixed it and applied it to CVS just now.

But you will need to call N_() instead of _():

 validates_presence_of :some_attr, :message => N_(''should not be
blank'')

Please try CVS version or wait the next release of Ruby-GetText-Pacakge.
#I''ll release it soon.

-- 
.:% Masao Mutoh<mutoh@highway.ne.jp>

> I''ve fixed it and applied it to CVS just now.
Thanks for the quick reaction. I ended up translating the whole  
messages by hand as they were just a few and I needed it pretty  
quickly. But it is good to know that it works now.

Thanks again!

-- Nicky