multilingual mongodb mongomapper

Question

hi all

I have a category collection and each category has a array of hashes containing attributes names and units to create a inout form with, to add a product of that category.

for example category car fields - {name : length, unit : mm}, {name : weight, unit : kg}.

Problem is i would this site to be multi-lingual and therefore need to store the field names per language.

I could put them inline :

for example category car fields - {en-name : length, cn-name : ....., de-name : ....., unit : mm}

Is there a better way ?

Not sure if this is best way as i want to be able to pass a docuement of names needing to be translated to the translator for all field names for all categories, so storing this way i would have to grab all then put into another docuement then translate and inset new translated naes back!!!

Any help or ideas ?

Thanks rick

Answer 1

The best way would be to put translations in locale files (in config/locales/). For example (english locale):

en:
  categories:
    car:
      length: Length

And then something like that when displaying name of the field:

I18n.t("categories.#{category.name}.#{field_name}")

This way you can maintain only one locale file and send the other ones to the translator.