Simple pattern for i18n spanish genders in rails
After some projects that included i18n to spanish I found a pattern that works for translating model names with the proper genderization for the i18n-inflector gem .
Of course is still far from perfect, but it may help someone
class ApplicationController < ActionController::Base
inflection_method :gender
def gender
model_name = controller_name.gsub("Controller","").downcase.singularize
@gender ||= (t("activerecord.models.#{model_name}") =~ /[ad]$/ ) ? :f : :m
end
end
it would be used like this:
t(:add_model, :model => t('activerecord.models.somemodel'))
i18n:
inflections:
gender:
f: "mujer"
m: "hombre"
...
add_model: 'Agregar @{m:un|f:una} %{model}'
I think it will be so much better to find a way to specify the gender of nouns in the .yaml file so that translators can do it instead.
Written by Franco
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