Overriding model attribute names using I18n - can't get this working.

Question

Hi all. I'm trying to override the string used to describe the 'login' attribute of my User model to be "User name" instead. I thought that this was set in vendor/rails/activerecord/lib/active_record/locale/en.yml. I've tried changing it here and in my config/locales/en.yml file, and in neither case does it work (i restart the server after every change).

In both cases it's done like this:

en:
...
  activerecord:
    attributes:
         user:
           login: User Name

When i test it out, eg having f.label :login in my new user form, it comes out as "Login" not "User Name". Am i labouring under some fundamental error about how this stuff works, or is it genuinely not working? Either way, can anyone tell me how to fix it? thanks, max

Answer 1

You may store your "User Name" string under any name in your en.yml file:

en:
 user:
   user_name: User Name

and in your view

<%= f.label :login, t('user.user_name') %>