Translating enum values (SelectField) and booleans

[davidgm0]

The only thing I found related to translating enum values is this: https://github.com/thoughtbot/administrate/issues/1994. I'm not sure if I'm missing or configuring my i18n wrong and this should already work out of the box. Would this be an addition you would accept?

• What would you like to be able to do? Can you provide some examples?

Initially I was just trying to get an enum displayed in an index page to be upercase. So instead of displaying closed, display Closed. I thought it'd make sense to use i18n for this as well.

Similar for booleans

• How could we go about implementing that?

The most basic thing I found that worked was adding

# en.yml in administrate
en:
  true: "true"
  false: "false"

# boolean.rb
def to_s
  I18n.t(data.to_s)
end

# select.rb
def data
  I18n.translate(super)
end

This worked. I am not familiar with the codebase, but I guess the translation would fit better in the views. And for select fields, the translations should look more like:

activerecord:
  enums:
    mymodel:
      state:
        closed: 'Closed'

• Can you think of other approaches to the problem?