ActiveRecord

Translations on ActiveRecord models (on class-level)

class Post < ActiveRecord::Base validates_presence_of :country_id, :message => _(‘Select one fool!’) end

Someting like this did never work with GetText and can never work since at the point the class is loaded neither text_domain nor locale should be set
(no user has logged in yet). The only reason it will blow up now when using FastGettext
is that FastGettext will complain when no `text_domain/locale` is set whereas GetText gave no feedback and merrily returned the msgid.

There are 2 possible solutions I found:

1. use validate do and add the message dynamic
2. use Rails I18n framework, by adding

activerecord: errors: models: post: presence: “Select one fool!”

to all config/locales/xxx.yml and remove the :message=>xxx part.
(my preferred solution since it is very simple and reduces logic)

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Third possible solution would be to enable procs as custom messages:

validates_length_of :archives, :minimum => 1, :message => proc {_(’Gadget requires at least one archive ’)}

Get my monkey patch for that!

Regards, geekQ