partydrone wrote in post #968419:
> OK. After much trial and error, here is the code that works:
>
> t("date.month_names")[8]
>
> Basically, call the I18n.translate method passing the date.month_names
> key which return an array of month names, then access the index for
> the desired month. (The first slot in the array is nil so indexes
> match names correctly).Interesting. Note that with Gettext-type I18n (e.g. with fast_gettext), this would be much simpler, just _(Date::MONTHNAMES[8]), since Gettext uses the translatable string itself as a key rather than Rails' weird symbolic keys. In general, I highly recommend using Gettext rather than Rails' default backend. Best, -- Marnen Laibow-Koser http://www.marnen.org mar...@marnen.org -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. -- 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.
