问题
I am building apps for a non-english audience. Right now, I use english nouns to name my models, yet I prefer to use native dutch ones. As the convention uses the plural of the class name for tables, I assume it is the pluralize method inside Rails (where it resides, I wouldn't know). How can I change the pluralize method and where is it located? Would this break Rails?
I am using Rails 2.3.5 and Ruby 1.8.7
Example: The Book class becomes books now. My Boek class becomes boeks, but it is grammatically correct to use boeken
回答1:
Add your rules to an inflections.rb file in config/initializers. See the API documentation:
ActiveSupport::Inflector.inflections do |inflect|
inflect.plural 'boek', 'boeken'
end
回答2:
Perhaps won't help you because you want Dutch language, but for Spanish, French, Kazakh, Turkish or Norwegian, there is this:
https://github.com/davidcelis/inflections
回答3:
This is not answering the question specifically, but if a language has too much irregularities one can disable the inflector according to the discussion.
ActiveRecord::Base.pluralize_table_names = false
回答4:
In addition, as far as views are concerned my preferred way of dealing with pluralizing foreign strings is i18n pluralization. Take a look at a straightforward example below.
# config/locales/en.yml
en:
message:
one: You have 1 message #Your foreign string
other: You have %{count} messages #Your foreign string
Then in view you can do
# app/views/messages/index.html.erb
<%= t("message", count: current_user.messages.count) %>
Check official documentation.
Hope that helps!
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2998551/ruby-on-rails-pluralize-for-other-languages