On 26 April 2010 13:55, Dhruva Sagar <dhruva.sa...@gmail.com> wrote: >... > > eg.) Lets say I have a User model and each user has a 'role' as a column. So > if I want to internationalize the value of the 'Role', you propose that it > should be done using the database ? > I imagine so then for internationalizing to 5 different languages, I would > then have to create 5 records for this very user with different 'Role' > values for each language.
I suggest that the role as a string 'Administrator' or whatever should not be a column in the users table. The roles should be in a separate table, with user belongs_to role. I think this will make your life much easier. Colin -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to rubyonrails-t...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to rubyonrails-talk+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
