EnumStings in Hobo can be translated easily.

0004 Translation of Enum-Tags in Hobo.markdown

EmumStrings are an awesome feature of Hobo for a set of constants for select-options, that should be localized (gender, titles, types,...).

I didn't understand how to translate Hobo EnumStrings (I believe I saw other things on Hobocentral).

My thanks go to Iox, who helped me figure it out.

The most tricky part for me is the key: contentelement/markups: in the .yml file

• The Model class is named ContentElement (so neither ContentElement nor content_elements is right here)
• The attribute is named markup and it has to be pluralized.
• The EnumString instance is named MarkupType but it is irrelevant for translation.

content_element.rb

# I live in app/models/content_element.rb

class ContentElement < ActiveRecord::Base

  hobo_model # Don't put anything above this
  MarkupType = HoboFields::Types::EnumString.for("html", "markdown")

  fields do
    markup     ContentElement::MarkupType
  # more fields
    timestamps
  end

  # other declarations
end

de.yml

de:
# ...
  activerecord:
# ...
    attributes:
# ...
      contentelement/markups:
        html: "HTML-Seite"
        markdown: "Markdown Seite"
# ...

+1, thanks for sharing :)

Nice gist example Stefan. Just a small detail: the syntax for enumstring you used came from older Hobo versions. I think you could get the same result without using the MarkType constant:

class ContentElement < ActiveRecord::Base

  hobo_model # Don't put anything above this

  fields do
    markup     enum_string(:html, :markdown)
  # more fields
    timestamps
  end

  # other declarations
end

Regards,
Ignacio