Translate model's plural form

Question

I have got a model, that is called vehicle.

In my translation the model must be: vehicle => Fahrzeug vehicles => Fahrzeuge

I tried to set this in the locales file, but it did not work:

  activerecord:
    models:
      vehicle: Fahrzeug
      vehicles: Fahrzeuge

score 31 · Accepted Answer · edited Aug 22 '14 at 07:55

31

ActiveRecord first translates the model name using I18n.translate with default

:count => 1

Pluralizing this string afterwards dosn't know about model translations.

But, human accepts options so

Vehicle.model_name.human(:count => 2)

does the trick together with pluralized translations:

de:
  activerecord:
    models:
      vehicle:
        one: 'Fahrzeug'
        other: 'Fahrzeuge'

edited Aug 22 '14 at 07:55

answered Feb 14 '13 at 13:22

Martin M

1

Since different languages have different plural rules, a look at [this table](http://unicode.org/repos/cldr-tmp/trunk/diff/supplemental/language_plural_rules.html) might be interesting. – martin Sep 09 '13 at 12:16
so what would arabian poeple use in the header of an index? `few` or `many`? I don't know. But of cause you can use `:count=>8` for `few` or `:count => 70` for many. If you know the amount, you can pass it to `human`. – Martin M Sep 09 '13 at 17:02
There should be a version that's more pleasant to the eye – mzrnsh Feb 01 '20 at 16:22

phoet · Answer 2 · 2014-07-07T19:11:40.023

0

 activerecord:
    models:
      vehicle:
        one: Fahrzeug
        many: Fahrzeuge

in rails 4 this seems to be changed from many to other

en:
  activerecord:
    models:
      user:
        one: Dude
        other: Dudes

edited Jul 07 '14 at 19:11

answered Jul 03 '12 at 17:58

phoet

somehow it does still translate vehicles to "Fahrzeugs" – Mark Jul 03 '12 at 18:16
the only other thing that i can think of is the "inflections.rb" file, but i don't think that it would help... – phoet Jul 03 '12 at 18:18

score -1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 24 '13 at 14:53

-1

Have you tried other instead of many? That worked for me at least. I am on Rails 3.2.3.

answered Jan 24 '13 at 14:53

Tintin81

3 Answers3