@Colin Ahh yes of course, well my example was just to demonstrate the usage of i18n. Roles should of course me a separate table, but then again, the separate table will have a role column right :).
@Yiannis Using multiple tables for the purpose of internationalization to me seems like such an overkill, how do you map a single model to different table based on the locale ? On Mon, Apr 26, 2010 at 21:53, Colin Law <clan...@googlemail.com> wrote: > 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<rubyonrails-talk%2bunsubscr...@googlegroups.com> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en. > > -- Thanks & Regards, Dhruva Sagar. -- 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.
