Comments on: Translating dates in ruby (on rails)

By: Luis Fernando

Luis Fernando — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:22:06 +0000

I found this, it may help somebody else as well.

I18n.t ‘date.abbr_month_names’

By: Moroten

Moroten — Wed, 05 May 2010 16:43:54 +0000

I have the same problem! My calendar uses Date::DAYNAMES to get the days of the week. And now I can’t translate them! How to do?

By: Nico

Nico — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 02:48:47 +0000

it’s still a mess !!
can’t find a way to get the translated day of the week !
and if i get it from DATE::DAYNAMES , i get the english version.. that’s plain stupid

By: Jorge Bernal

Jorge Bernal — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:23:05 +0000

Yep, now it’s much better, but back then when I wrote this post, rails internationalization was a complete mess

By: Gazer

Gazer — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:28:12 +0000

In moderns rails (2.2+ I think) you can use the I18n API :

I18n::localize(Date.today, :format => “%B %Y”)

By: blaxter

blaxter — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 10:33:56 +0000

for freezing constant you can redefine them (with a warning) with monkeypatching:

class Date ABBR_DAYNAMES = %w(Dom Lun Mar Mié Jue Vie Sab) end

or with const_set:

Date.const_set 'ABBR_DAYNAMES', %w(Dom Lun Mar Mié Jue Vie Sab)

By: Frank Fischer

Frank Fischer — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 09:07:42 +0000

This won’t work with Date::MONTHNAMES Array beeing frozen since Ruby 1.8.6

By: Jose

Jose — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 19:59:01 +0000

I had a problem with this code “can’t modify frozen array (TypeError)” cant get it to work